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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
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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 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 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
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
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
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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 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
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- 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 am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- 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
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
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
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
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.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
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