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To be or not to be is not
by Golda Meir

To be or not to be is not
a question of compromise.
Either you be or you don't be.
- Golda Meir

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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Golda Meir

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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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

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

 

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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 have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

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)

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- 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

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

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

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

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

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

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

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

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

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

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

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe

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

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 secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

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

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

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

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

Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

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

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky


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