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I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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The new rage is to say that the government
is the cause of all our problems,
and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems.
I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
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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
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
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
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 is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
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
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
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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.
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
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