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I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
My quiet voice speaks the loudest.
- Richard Carlson
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't sweat the small stuff.
- Richard Carlson
It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people
who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
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
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 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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
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 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 all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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.
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
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
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
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
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
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 like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
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