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Correlation does not imply causation.
- Statistician's maxim
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
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
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
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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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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)
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
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 a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
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
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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