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Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- 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
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
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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 never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
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 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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
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
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
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 great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
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