Quotes

Quotes are words that often linger in our minds and teach us useful things. This page includes quotes from Mother Teresa, Mark Twain, and many others. I have found them to be useful and entertaining. Maybe you will do the same. "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." (Mother Teresa) "Love is not what we become, but what we already are." (Stephen Levine) "Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real" (Iris Murdoch) "If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love." (Thich Nhat Hanh) "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island....to find one real friend in a lifetime is a good fortune, to keep him is a blessing." (Baltasar Gracian) "Hold a friend's hand through times of trial, Let her find love through a hug and a smile; But also know when it is time to let go--For each and every one of us must learn to grow." (Sharon A. Heilbrunn) One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese Proverb) "Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge." (Carmelia Elliot) "If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." (Goethe) "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink." (Romans 12:20) "The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it." (C. C. Scott) "Wherever you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Bonzai) "It is such a secret place, the land of tears." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) "Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path. But the lesson to be learned is always ours." (Melody Beattie) "It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you--when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead." (Robin Williams) "Things do not change. We change." (Henry David Thoreau) "The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt." "A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself." (Henry Winkler) "It is important to be involved and stand up for what you believe in." (Ione Skye) "Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it." (Hebrews 13:2) "Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." (Kaleel Jamison) "You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." (Barbara De Angelis) "It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back." (Mick Jagger) "Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." (Karen Casey) "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." (Mother Teresa) "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." (Epictetus) "There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy." (Unknown) "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." (Plato) "The greatest gift is a portion of thyself." (Plato) "To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." (Gandhi) "You never know what happiness a simple act of kindness will bring about." (Bree Abel) "The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you loved them." (Unknown) "The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live." (Madame de Stael) "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it." (Mark Twain) "In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure." (Heart Warrior Chosa) "Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow." (Swedish Proverb) "The words 'I am....' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you." (A. L. Kitselman) "The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place." (Barbara De Angelis) "Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." (Sally Koch) "You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?" (Rumi) "From what we get we can make a living, what we give, however, makes a life." (Arthur Ashe) "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." (Semisonic) "You gotta reach through the flames and take it...or lose it forever." (from the movie This Boy's Life) "True love can not be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does." (Unknown)