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It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised.
No barrier of the senses shuts me out from
the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends.
They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
- Helen Keller

Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman

Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Children are curious and are risk takers.
They have lots of courage.
They venture out into a world
that is immense and dangerous.
A child initially trusts life
and the processes of life.
- John Bradshaw

To keep your thinking young, stay curious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

 

That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach

I have no special talent.
I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain

Be less curious about people,
and more curious about ideas.
- Marie Curie

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

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

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.

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

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

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

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

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

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 does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- 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

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

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

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

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins

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

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

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

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

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

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

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

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.

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

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

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

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

For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt


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