Count your age with friends but not with years – Anonymous

Sunday is National Women’s Friendship Day. Started in 1999 by Kappa Delta, this day is set aside to reflect on the appreciation and celebration of friendship. It reminds us to be grateful for girlfriends and to spend some time with the women (or girls) or make life healthier, happier and lots more fun.

Here in Cincinnati, we’re holding a “Women who Wine” event (where we’ll bottle our own wine as well as enjoy wine, snacks, gift bags and lots of prizes!) on Sunday – 1-3pm, Tino Vino (3665 Erie Ave). Join us as we celebrate friendships with our girlfriends and a really great event!

Regardless of where you are, if you’re reading this, you’re thankful for your friends. Celebrate National Women’s Friendship Day by doing something special for your girlfriends. Send them a card, make them a gift, even write a thoughtful email and send it with a picture of the two of you or make plans to get together.

To help you with the cards, letters or emails, here are some great friendship quotes to share with your BFFs:

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
~ Helen Keller

“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness…”
~ Richard Bach

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
~ Euripides

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. – Lois L. Kaufman

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. – Swedish proverb

Hold a true friend with both your hands. – Nigerian Proverb

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. – Jewish Saying

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
- Henry Ford

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

“A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.”

“Every person is a new door to a different world.”
- from movie “Six Degrees of Seperation”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.”
- C. S. Lewis

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
-Goethe

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.”
- Marlene Dietrick

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
- Artistotle

Do you have a favorite friendship quote? Please share to inspire others. Let’s make National Women’s Friendship Day just the beginning of building strong friendships and enjoying wonderful memories together!

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