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We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Related topics: Wisdom
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi 
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
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
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 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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
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 pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- 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.
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
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
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 now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
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
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
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