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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
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The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
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
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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)
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
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
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
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
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
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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
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
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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
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.
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
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
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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
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
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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