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Overwhelm is not a pleasant condition.
The to-do list overflows,
the deadlines appear imminent and immovable.
There are too many demands upon too little of your time.
Does this sound familiar?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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 must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- 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)
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
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
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
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.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
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
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