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Please enjoy these Rene Descartes quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Related topics: Wisdom
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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 key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
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.
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
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)
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
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
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
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
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
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