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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
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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 best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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)
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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 must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
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
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
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
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
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
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
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
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
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
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
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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
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
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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