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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu
Related topics: Wisdom
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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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)
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
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
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
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
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
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
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- 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
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
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