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Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
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.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
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Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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)
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
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
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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 come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
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
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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