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The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
- Edward Snowden
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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
No man is good enough to govern another man
without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
Silence gives consent.
- Plato
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
In all things and in all ways,
choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
It bears repeating that even those things
which seem out of reach of our choice
are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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 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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
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
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 all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
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 possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
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
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
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
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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