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Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin
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That which is hateful to you,
do not do to your fellow.
That is the whole Torah;
the rest is the explanation.
- Talmud (Jewish Wisdom)
On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin
All other things being equal,
the simplest explanation is the most likely.
- a statement of Occam's Razor
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The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
- John Lennon
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ecstasy is our very nature;
not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary.
To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous.
It needs no effort to be ecstatic,
it needs great effort to be miserable.
That's why you look to tired,
because misery is really hard work;
to maintain it is really difficult,
because you are doing something against nature.
- Osho
In your days - things like this happen to you...
You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake,
and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired -
but I don't want you to miss this."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
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)
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
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
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- 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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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