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Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
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
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
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)
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.
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
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
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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 right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
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
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
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
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
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
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
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
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