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Please enjoy these St. Francis De Sales quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
Related topics: Values
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
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
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)
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
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
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
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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 is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
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
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
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
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
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
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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