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Please enjoy these Quotes about Selfsame and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
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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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)
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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'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
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
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
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
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
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
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 friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
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
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
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
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
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 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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
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
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
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