Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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

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)

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 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

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

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

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

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 world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

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

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

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

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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 man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon

When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

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

I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft

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

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

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

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

A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

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

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.

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

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

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

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

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Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow