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We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
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There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
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)
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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 all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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 key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
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
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
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 great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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