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There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
I am not the Catholic candidate for President.
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President,
who happens also to be a Catholic.
- John F. Kennedy
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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
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
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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)
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
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
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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
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
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
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