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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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)
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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 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
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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 is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- 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
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
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
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
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
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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