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Please enjoy these John A. Shedd quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott 
I alone am the Master of my ship of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation,
a ship going to discover the New World.
And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
- John Lennon
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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)
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
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
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 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
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- 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
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
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
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.
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
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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