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He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
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
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
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)
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
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
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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.
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
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
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
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
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
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