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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented;
we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Anne Lamott
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You can safely assume that you've
created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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)
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
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
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
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
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
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
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
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
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
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
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
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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