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It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
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Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- 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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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 friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
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
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
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
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
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
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
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
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
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
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
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