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It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
by Henry Ward Beecher

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Stress Worry

The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher

A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night;
a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both,
more bewitching than either.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

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

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

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

For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung

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

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

Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

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

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

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

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


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