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It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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)
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- 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
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
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
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
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
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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
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
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
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
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
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
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