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Please enjoy these Abdul-Baha quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
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If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
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