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Not paying a just wage, not giving work,
only because one is looking at the bottom line,
at the budget of the company, seeking only profit -
that is against God.
- Pope Francis
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We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- 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
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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
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
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
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
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
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
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
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
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.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
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