Do not speak to me of rules. by The Bridge On The River Kwai

Do not speak to me of rules.
by The Bridge On The River Kwai

Do not speak to me of rules.
This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
- from the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho

The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung

Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

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

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

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

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

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

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

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

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

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato

We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall

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

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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Do not speak to me of rules.by The Bridge On The River Kwai

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Do not speak to me of rules.
by The Bridge On The River Kwai