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It is not what we choose that is important;
it is the reason we choose it.
- Carolyn Myss
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
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)
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- 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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
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
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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.
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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