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Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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 friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
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)
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
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
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 will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
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
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
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
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
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
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