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Please enjoy these Isocrates quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
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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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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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
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
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
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
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 is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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 
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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)
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
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
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
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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
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
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
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