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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. ...
by Alan Watts

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

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

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 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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

 

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

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

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

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

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

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

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

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 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

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

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

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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)

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie

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

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

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

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

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

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

We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall

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.

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

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

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung


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