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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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)
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
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 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
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
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- 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
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
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 possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
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
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
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
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
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
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
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
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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