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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
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If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
Living the Unconcerned Life is living
a life without anxiety or worry -
especially in those situations where anxiety and worry
would seem to be expected and "natural."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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 is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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)
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
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
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.
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
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
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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 must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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 is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
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