Quotes about Epicurus and Friendship

Quotes about Epicurus and Friendship
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

I am an Epicurean.
I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus
as containing everything rational in moral philosophy
which Greek and Roman leave to us.
- Thomas Jefferson

If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

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

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

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

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall

I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft

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

We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

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