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Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Just as in the comedies, a person who is in love
with the idea of love sees prospective partners
through the lens of idealism.
The reaction is, "This must be the one.
They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."
Is that person they just met a perfect match?
It's unlikely their friends think so.
So what happened? That person with the cute smile
was not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreams
of the one in love with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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)
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
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
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
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
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
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
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