"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens
to you" -- Aldous Huxley
"When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars."
-- Charles A. Beard
"What I do is me, for that I came."
-- Hopkins
"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to
something." -- Ornette Coleman
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life ; define yourself." -- Harvey Fierstein
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -- William Jennings Bryan
"Here
is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're
alive, it isn't." -- Richard Bach
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
-- Scottish Proverb
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
- Michelangelo
"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates
Art far more than Art imitates Life."
- Oscar Wilde
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's
the poet's equal there."
- E. M. Cioran
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
- Orison Swett Marden
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Reality
is wrong. Dreams are for real."
-Tupac Shakur
"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are
my energy."
-Anon.
"The road to a friend's house is never long."
-Danish proverb
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something
you learn in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." -Muhammad Ali
"Friends are treasures."
-Horace Bruns
"The
only way to have a friend is to be one."
-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
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
-Elbert Hubbard
"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the
other person? Can you enjoy those moments
of life that are utterly simple?"
-Eugene Kennedy
"True friends stab you in the front."
-Oscar Wilde
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
-Epicurus
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
-Napoleon
"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."
-Anon.
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
-Stephen Covey
"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."
-Anatole France
"Imagination
is the only weapon in the war against reality."
-Jules de Gautier
"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never
were and ask, 'Why not?'"
-George Bernard Shaw
"I am imagination.
I can see what the eyes cannot see.
I can hear what the ears cannot hear.
I can feel what the heart cannot feel."
-Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
-Swedish Proverb
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
-Anon.
"Enjoy
life. There's plenty of time to be dead."
-Anon.
"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."
-Anon.
"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
-Joan Borysenko
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the
mind on the present moment." -Buddha
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
-Robert Byrne
"All life is an experiment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared
to what lives within us."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the
fact."
-William James
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long
to begin it."
-W. M. Lewis
"Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it
will be."
-Jeremy Schwartz
"For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever."
-Laura Swenson
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful
because you love her." -Anon.
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get,
it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." -Anon.
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot
live within." -James Baldwin
"Sometimes
the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
-Willa Cather
"A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
'Cause you love and care for the one you chose."
-Rob Cella
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton
"Love builds bridges where there are none."
-R. H. Delaney
"We
are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
-Benjamin Disraeli
"All mankind love a lover."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says
'I need you because I love you.'"
-Erich Fromm
"Where there is love there is life."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not
my lips you kissed, but my soul."
-Judy Garland
"There is only one terminal dignity -- love."
-Helen Hayes
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."
-Javan
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply
gives you courage." -Lao-Tzu
"Do all things with love."
-Og Mandino
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato
"I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that
would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it." -Kyle Schmidt
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
-Erich Segal
"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse
thy name..."
-William Shakespeare
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal
"Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is." -Virgil
"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them,
or turn them into literature."
-Stephen Stills
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's
last romance." -Oscar Wilde
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made
them feel."
-Carl W. Buechner
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever
happen to one again." -Willa Cather
"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone
the test of memory."
-Georges Duhamel
"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger
and stranger it is."
-Vladimir Nabokov
"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."
-Virgil
"I
existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till
the end of time, for my being has no end."
-Kahlil Gibran
"Forgiveness
is the final form of love."
-Reinhold Niebuhr
"We
love, because God first loved us."
-1 John 4:19
"
Faith is to believe what we do not see,
and the reward of faith is to see what we believe." -Saint Augustine
"Live
in such a way that those who know you but don't know God
will come to know God because they know you." -Anonymous
"I
know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much." -Mother Teresa
"When
you have to cope with a lot of problems,
you're either going to sink or
you're going to swim." -Tom Cruise
"Family
... a group experience of love and support."
-Marianne Williamson
"Things
do not change. We change"
-Henry David Thoreau
"My
mother always used to say:
The older you get, the better you get ...
unless you're a banana." -Rose Nylund
