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Please enjoy these Quotes about Skeptical and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
Be skeptical, but learn to listen.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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The rich are not born skeptical or cynical.
They are made that way by events, circumstances.
- Paul Getty
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
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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The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
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)
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
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
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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 best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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)
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
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
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
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 does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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