We have not yet begun to fight. ... by John Paul Jones

We have not yet begun to fight. ...
by John Paul Jones

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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

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 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

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

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

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 one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

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

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

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

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

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

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead

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.

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

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We have not yet begun to fight. ...by John Paul Jones

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We have not yet begun to fight. ...
by John Paul Jones