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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service,
to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Related topics: Christian Religion
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is no use walking anywhere to preach
unless our walking is our preaching.
- St. Francis of Assisi
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Above all the grace and the gifts
that Christ gives to his beloved
is that of overcoming self.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
...
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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 does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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 is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
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
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
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)
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- 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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
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.
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
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