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Struggle is highly overrated.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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 does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
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 is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
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
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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
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
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 does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
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
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- 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
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
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
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
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
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