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It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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 have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
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
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
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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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
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 what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
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
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
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- 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
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
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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