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The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
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
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)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
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 best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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'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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
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
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
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
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
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
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