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Differences challenge assumptions.
- Anne Wilson Schaef
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
All differences in this world
are of degree, and not of kind,
because oneness is the secret of everything.
- Swami Vivekananda
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Together we must learn how to compose differences,
not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we cannot now end our differences,
at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
Recall a recent time when someone was strongly critical
of your opinions (perhaps your political or religious beliefs).
Now, put yourself in their shoes - with compassion.
Try to understand and appreciate their point-of-view -
not to change your own opinions,
but to celebrate all our human differences - in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree
is connected with that of man.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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)
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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 is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
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
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
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