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I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
Related topics: Spiritual Religion
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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 will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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 is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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.
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 begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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