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For it was not into my ear you whispered,
but into my heart.
It was not my lips you kissed,
but my soul.
- Judy Garland
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
- Judy Garland
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
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If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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)
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
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
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- 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
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
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
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
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
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- 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
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
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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 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
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
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