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Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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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
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
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 is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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 is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
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
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
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
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
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
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
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
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
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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