Not what we have, by Epicurus

Not what we have,
by Epicurus

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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 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

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

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

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.

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

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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)

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

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

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 one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

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

We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner

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

Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- 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

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

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

As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

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

Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- 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

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Not what we have,by Epicurus

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Not what we have,
by Epicurus