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If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
by Abdul-Baha

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

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Positive Happiness Now

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

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

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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

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

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

 

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

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

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

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

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

I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung

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

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

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

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.

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

Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato

Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

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

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

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

For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

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

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb

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

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

Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

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

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


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