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Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
A newborn does not have worry, or stress, or anger,
because they have not yet learned those things.
Consider what life would be like if you could
forget all the past resentments and perceived offenses
that color your thinking and your emotions.
Buddhists call that state "beginner mind" -
an opening to experience life
without the jaundiced filter of past disappointments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Have a talk with your mind
(it really is something separate from yourself).
Lay down the law.
"My life begins TODAY.
I am like a newborn.
I have what I have today;
I have my fingers, my toes,
some people in my life,
some material and financial state.
Yesterday is only a dream -
perhaps a nightmare,
perhaps a cherished memory,
but only a dream - nothing more.
I will make all decisions and actions based solely
on what I have today as a starting point."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- 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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
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)
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- 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
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
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
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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.
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
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
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
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 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
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- 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
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
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
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