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Please enjoy these Edmund Hillary quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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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)
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
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Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- 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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
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
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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.
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
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The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
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
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
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
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
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
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
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
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
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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