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Some people come into our lives
and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are
never, ever the same. -Unknown
The perception of beauty is a moral test. -Henry David Thoreau
Love’s pleasure lasts
but a moment, Love’s pain lasts a lifetime. -St. John Perse
Love eagerly believes
everything it wishes. -Racine
To love and be loved will be the greatest event in our lives.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved
-Molière
One may have two
passions, but one cannot have two loves. One who loves twice does not love. -Alexander
Dumas, Jr.
We stop loving ourselves
when no one loves us. -Madame de Staël
The heart has reasons that the
mind knows not. -Pascal
Love is not the act of
looking at each other but of looking together in the same direction. -Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry
When in love one often
speaks of love too much but does not prove it enough. -Régnier
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a
young woman, it’s boldness. -Victor Hugo
The most beautiful
women are made for lovers who lack imagination. -Guy de Maupassant
One who loves with a
passion can not easily forgive. -Claudel
Love is much better than hatred; there is never too much. -René Descartes
Talk not of
wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lust is when you
love what you see. Love is when you lust for what’s inside. -Renee Conkle
We cannot be more sensitive
to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. -Alan Watts
Though we travel
the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. -Ralph
Waldo Emerson
What we say is important...
for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. -Jim Beggs
Let men tremble to win the
hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart. -Nathaniel
Hawthorne
The hardest of
all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them
not when we feel like it, but when they do. -Nan Fairbrother
Somethings in life
will capture your eye. Others will capture your heart...pursue those. -Unknown
I love a hand that meets my
own with a grasp that causes some sensation. -Samuel Osgood
Love is an
attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -Theodor Reik
Once in awhile,
right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. -Unknown
It isn’t intellect that
connects us to other people; it is feeling. -Charles Fowler
The course of true love
never did run smooth. -William Shakespeare
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The only way to have a friend
is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laugh, and the world
laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Real friends are those who
upon watching you make a fool of yourself do not feel that the job was done permanently.
-Anonymous
It is easy enough to be
friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend one who regards himself as your enemy is
the quintessence of religion. The other is mere business. -Mahatma Gandhi
Go often to the house
of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good friend remembers what we
were and sees what we can be. -Janette Oke
Friendship is like money,
easier made than kept. -Samuel Butler
When we seek to discover the
best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. -William Arthur Ward
A friend may well be reckoned the
masterpiece of nature. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be slow in choosing a friend,
slower in changing. -Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes our light goes out
but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those
who have rekindled this light. - Albert Schweitzer
Friendship is constant in all
other things Save in the office and affairs of love. -William Shakespeare
It is not our purpose to become
each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for
what he is. -Hermann Hesse
When you hear a kind word spoken
about a friend, tell him so. -H. Jackson Brown
Don't walk in front of me, I
may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my
friend. - Albert Camus
A man cannot be said to succeed in
this life who does not satisfy one friend. -Henry David Thoreau
When you have once seen the glow
of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but
to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the
unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter. -
Albert Camus
It is one of the most
beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without
helping himself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friends Has
not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere. -Ralph Waldo
Emerson
The glory of friendship is not
the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the
spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in
him and is willing to trust him. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person with
whom you dare to be yourself. -Frank Crane
I cannot even imagine where I
would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of
joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. -Charles Swindoll
The difference between
friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. -Ashleigh Brilliant
Reality is the playground for the
unimaginative. -Unknown
Reality is more than the thing itself. I
look always for its super reality. Reality lies in how you see things. - Pablo Picasso
The reality of the other person is not
in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would
understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say. -Kahlil Gibran
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the
dream-world into reality. -Theodor Reik
Two paths diverged
in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost
Maturity is when you stop doing the
things you make excuses for and stop making excuses for the things you need to do.
-Unknown
It’s the special things in
life that make it mean so much. The sun, the rain the sky; the thoughts and the touch. If
we let these precious things float out to endless sea, we lose our hope, our love and all
our reason to be. -Unknown
There must be more to life than
sitting there wondering if there is more to life. -Unknown
Humor is just another defense
against the universe. -Mel Brooks
If you’re not afraid to face
the music, you may someday lead the band. -Unknown
If I could drop dead right now,
I’d be the happiest man alive. -Samuel Goldwyn
Our lives begin to end the day we
become silent about things that matter. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you live in the shadow of
insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something
close to a blessed event. -R. Pirsig
All you need in this life is
ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. -Mark Twain
I learned there are troubles of
more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind. -Dr. Seuss
If today is the first day of the
rest of your life, what was yesterday? -Unknown
Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever
has. -Margaret Mead
Live your life as an exclamation,
not an explanation. -Unknown
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today. -James Dean
You may have a fresh start any
moment you choose, for this thing we call failure' is not the falling down, but the
staying down. -Mary Pickford
Whatever you do may seem
insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -Mahatma Gandhi
It is not enough to be busy, so
are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about? -Henry David Thoreau
I like nonsense, it wakes up the
brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life
through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at
life's realities. - Dr. Seuss
People who know little are usually
great talkers, while men who know much say little. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
I'd rather be a failure at
something I love than a success at something I hate. - George Burns
I was wise enough to never grow
up while fooling most people into believing I had. - Margaret Mead
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 Browne
The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead; his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein
There is a theory which states
that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it
will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Douglas Adams
It is possible to believe that
all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but
the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever
accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. -H.G. Wells
It is not length of life, but
depth of life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
In three words I can sum up
everything I've learned about life: it goes on. -Robert Frost
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. -Buckminster
Fuller
Consistency is contrary to
nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. -Aldous Huxley
Don't go around saying the world
owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain
Hypocrisy is the lubricant of
society. -David Hull
The most incomprehensible thing
about the world is that it is comprehensible. -Albert Einstein
The mass of men lead lives of
quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. -Henry David Thoreau
Still round the corner there may
wait, A new road or a secret gate. - J.R.R. Tolkien
It's surprising how many persons go
through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely
determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within
yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harri
I passionately hate the idea of
being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. -Orson Welles
Why is it that we rejoice at a
birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. - Mark Twain
A person starts to live when he
can live outside himself. -Albert Einstein
I get this feeling we'll be
together again. No straight lines make up my life, all roads have bends. No clear cut
beginnings and so far no dead ends. -Harry Chapin
There is no such thing in anyone's
life as an unimportant day. -Alexander Woollcott
Take time to come home to
yourself everyday. -Robin Casarjeam
If you stop searching, you stop
living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you’re not reaching forward to
any growth or future, you might as well be dead. -Wynn Bullock
Expecting the world to treat you
fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you
because you are a vegetarian. - Dennis Wholey
You can't stay in your corner of
the forest, waiting for others to come to you; you have to go to them sometimes. -Unknown
To be what we are, and to become
what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Baruch Spinoza
Life is the childhood of our
immortality. -Goethe
Somebody's boring me--I
think it's me. -Dylan Thomas
There is nothing
in the whole world so painful as the feeling that one is not liked. -Sei Shonagon
What you achieve through the
journey of life is not as important as who you become. -Unknown
No one is much pleased
with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
-Samuel Johnson
Don't be humble. You're
not that great. -Golda Meir
Self love is the
greatest of all flatterers. -La Rochefoucauld
We stop loving ourselves when no
one loves us. -Madame de Staël
It's surprising how
many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other
people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not
comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harri
If you have anything
really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own
personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from
every other living creature. -Bruce Barton
To be
nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you
everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and
never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings
Everything that irritates
us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -Carl Jung
Do you know what a pessimist is? A
pessimist is a person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
-George Bernard Shaw
- The optimist thinks this is the best of all
possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -Robert Oppenheimer
- An optimist is a person who sees a green light
everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight...The truly wise person is color
blind. -Albert Schweitser
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