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Please enjoy these Anna Cummins quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
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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
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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 
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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)
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
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.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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