Do not do to others what would anger you by Isocrates

Do not do to others what would anger you
by Isocrates

Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)

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- 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

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

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

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

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

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)

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

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

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

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

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

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

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 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

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

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

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

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

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

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

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

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

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

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

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

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

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

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

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

The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou

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

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

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

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Do not do to others what would anger youby Isocrates

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Do not do to others what would anger you
by Isocrates