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Please enjoy these Pierre Teilhard de Chardin quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi 
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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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
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 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
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)
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
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
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
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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
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
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
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
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
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 dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
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
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