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Please enjoy these Albert Ellis quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
Related topics: Values
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
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 
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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)
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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.
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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