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Please enjoy these Mary Catherine Bateson quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Related topics: Wisdom
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
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
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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 word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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