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It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
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It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
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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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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)
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
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
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
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
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
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
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.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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
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
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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