Here is a collection of quotable quotes that I found interesting.

My collection of quotes started about three years ago, when I

decided to send my cousin a daily email called

"Thought for the Day". Three years later, I am still

sending these quotes to him, some are funny, some are insightful,

some just make you smile, think or laugh. I find them in

many different places, books, magazines, and online.

Hope you enjoy enjoy them!

"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy."

-Anon.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

I have no wealth to bestow on him.

If he knows that I am happy in loving him,

 he will want no other reward.

Is not friendship divine in this?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"A friendship can weather most things

 and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters

 and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often

 - just to save it from drying out completely."

-Pam Brown

Blessed are the Elderly

 for they remember what we never knew.

A careless word may kindle strife;

A cruel word may wreck a life;

A timely word may level stress;

A loving word may heal and bless.

"Deep listening is miraculous for both listener

 and speaker. When someone receives us

 with open-hearted, non-judging,

 intensely interested listening,

 our spirits expand."

~Sue Patton Thoele

"Friendship that flows from the heart

 cannot be frozen by adversity,

as the water that flows from the spring

 cannot congeal in winter."

- James Fenimore Coope

"This communicating of a man's self to his friend

 works two contrary effects;

 for it redoubleth joy,

 and cutteth griefs in half."

Francis Bacon

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day

regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

 We cannot change our past...

We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.

We cannot change the inevitable.

 The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,

 and that is our attitude.
-- Charles Swindoll

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
-- W.C. Fields

You know a dream is like a river
Ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you
And never knowing what's in store
Makes each day a constant battle
Just to stay between the shores.
Garth Brooks "The River"

One of the advantages of being disorderly

 is that one is constantly making

    exciting discoveries.

    --A. A. Milne

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 R. Swindoll

Each friend represents a world in us,

 a world not possibly born until they arrive,

and it is only by this meeting

that a new world is born.

~Anais Nin

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song,

read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if possible,

speak a few reasonable words.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is to be fortified by many friendships.

 To love and to be loved

 is the greatest happiness of existence.

~Sydney Smith

All who would win joy, must share it;

 happiness was born a twin.

    --Lord Byron

One only needs two tools in life:

 WD-40 to make things go,

 and duct tape to

  make them stop.

    --G. Weilacher

For everything you have missed,

you have gained something else.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

Before him, I may think aloud.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,

 for it is one of God's best gifts.

It involves many things, but above all,

the power of going out of one's self,

and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

    --Thomas Hughes

No distance of place or lapse of time

can lessen the friendship

of those who are thoroughly

persuaded of each other's worth.

 --Robert Southey

The most important things in life aren't things.

    --Anthony J. D'Angelo

"One day at a time - this is enough.

Do not look back and grieve over the past,

 for it is gone; and do not be troubled

 about the future, for it has not yet come.

 Live in the present and make it so beautiful

 that it will be worth remembering."

Ida Scott Taylor

"Go often to the house of thy friend,

for weeds choke the unused path."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe

with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to

measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is,

chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand

will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping,

and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

~George Eliot

"To laugh often and love much;

to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children,

to earn the approbation of honest critics;

 to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self,

to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,

a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;

to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived-

-that is to have succeeded."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We do not live an equal life,

but one of contrasts and patchwork;

now a little joy, then a sorrow,

now a sin, then a generous or brave action."

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon

in a perfectly useless manner,

 you have learned how to live.

~Lin Yutang

For best results: wash in cold water separately,

 hang dry and iron with warm iron.

 For not so good results:

drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.

-- Laundry instructions on a shirt made by HEET (Korea)

"The best and most beautiful things in the world

 cannot be seen or even touched.

They must be felt with the heart."

~Helen Keller, 1880-1968

To know someone here or there

 with whom you can feel there is understanding

 in spite of distances or thoughts expressed

~ That can make life a garden."

-Goethe

"The head thinks,

 the hands labor,

but it's the heart that laughs."

~Liz Curtis Higgs

Among those whom I like or admire,

I can find no common denominator,

 but among those whom I love, I can:

 all of them make me laugh.

~W. H. Auden

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

~Mort Walker

 "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every

 four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness.

 Think of your three best friends.

If they're okay, then it's you."

 ~Rita Mae Brown

If I could take your troubles
I would toss them into the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
Are impossible for me.
I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend that is always there.
-Khahlil Gibran "A True Friend"

Memory is the best of all gardens.

Therein, winter and summer,

the seeds of their past lie dormant,

ready to spring into instant bloom

 at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.
~Hal Boyle

Love can never grow old.

Locks may lose their brown and gold.

Cheeks may fade and hollow grow.

But the hearts that love will know,

never winter's frost and chill,

summer's warmth is in them still.

~Leo Buscaglia

"There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as though everything is a miracle."

~ Albert Einstein

Wear a smile and have friends;

wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

~George Eliot

"Do not save your loving speeches

For your friends till they are dead;

Do not write them on their tombstones,

Speak them rather now instead.

~ Anna Cummins

We live in deeds, not years;

 in thoughts, not breaths;

In feelings, not in figures on a dial;

We should count time by heart-throbs.

He most lives, Who thinks most,

feels the noblest, acts the best.

~P.J. Bailey

Learn the past,

watch the present,

 and create the future

~ Jesse Conrad

The greatest gift we can give one another

 is rapt attention to one another's existence.

~Sue Atchley Ebaugh

There are hundreds of languages in the world,

 but a smile speaks them all

There are many things that are essential

 to arriving at true peace of mind,

and one of the most important is faith,

 which cannot be acquired without prayer.

~John Wooden

Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu,

When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner, and someone saw my grin--

When he smiled I realized, I'd passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile, then I realized its worth,

A single smile, just like mine, could travel round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected--

Let's start an epidemic quick and get the world infected!

~ Anonymous

"In helping others, we shall help ourselves,

 for whatever good we give out

 completes the circle

 and comes back to us."

~Flora Edwards

Electric communication will never be a substitute

 for the face of someone who with their soul

 encourages another person

 to be brave and true.

~Charles Dickens

I quote others only the better to express myself.

~Michel de Montaigne"

"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."

"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."

-Anaïs Nin

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality.

It's how true friends talk.

~Peggy Noonan

Some people think only intellect counts:

 knowing how to solve problems,

knowing how to get by,

knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it.

 But the functions of intellect are insufficient

 without courage, love, friendship,

compassion and empathy.

~Dean Koontz

"You cannot do a kindness too soon,

for you never know how soon it will be too late. "

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be aware of wonder.

Live a balanced life--

learn some and think some

and draw and paint and sing

and dance and play and work every day some."

-Robert Fulghum

From "All I Really Need to Know I Learned

in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

I still find each day too short

 for the thoughts I want to think,

 all the walks I want to take,

 all the books I want to read

and all the friends I want to see.

~John Burroughs

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile,

the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."
-Unknown

Always remember to forget

The things that made you sad.

But never forget to remember 

The things that made you glad.

Always remember to forget

The friends that proved untrue.

But never forget to remember

Those that have stuck by you.

Always remember to forget

The troubles that passed away.

But never forget to remember

The blessings that come each day.

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading.

Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough

to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

-Christopher Morley

Always do right;

this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

 IN TUNE

I don't remember when I first began

To call you "friend." One day, I only know,

The vague companionship that I'd seen grow

So imperceptibly, turned gold, and ran

In tune with all I'd thought, or dared to plan.

Since then, you've been to me like music, low,

Yet clear; a fire that throws its warm, bright glow

On me as on each woman, child, and man,

And common thing that lies within its rays;

You've been like wholesome food that stays the cry

Of hungry, groping minds; and like a star -

A self-sufficient star - you make me raise

My utmost being to a higher sky,

In tune, like you, with earth, yet wide, and far.

-Florence Steigerwalt

Patience is a minor form of despair,

 disguised as a virtue.

  ~Ambrose Bierce

That is the best -- to laugh with someone

because you both think the same things are funny.

   -- Gloria Vanderbilt

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get,

they're things which get you.

And all you can do is

to go where they can find you.

~Winnie-the-Pooh

Every one has a gift for something,

even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Marian Anderson

If you have an apple and I have an apple

and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple.

But if you have an idea and I have an idea

and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

"Fear less, hope more;

Whine less, breathe more;

Talk less, say more;

Hate less, love more;

And all good things are yours."

-Swedish Proverb

"For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth,

 a book and a friend, and a nap

undisturbed by creditors or grief."

~Fernandez de Andrada

Life is easier than you think –

All you have to do is:

Accept the impossible,

Do without the indispensable,

Bear the intolerable and

Be able to smile at anything J

Kind words are jewels that live in the heart and soul

and remain as blessed memories

 years after they have been spoken.

~Marvea Johnson

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely! :-)

Today

Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend.

Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter.

Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth.

Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.

 Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge.

 Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong.

 Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others.

Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more.

 Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice.

Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God.

Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth.

Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again. Speak it still once again.

~author unknown

Friendship

by Carol Elaine Faivre-Scott

Each of us has a hidden place

Somewhere deep within ourselves;

A place where we go to get away,

To think things through,

To be alone, to be ourselves.

This unique place, where we confront our deepest feelings,

Becomes a storehouse of all our hopes,

All our needs, all our dreams,

And even our unspoken fears.

It encompasses the essence of who we are

And what we want to be.

But now and then, whether by chance or design,

Someone discovers a way into

That place we thought was ours alone.

And we allow that person to see, to feel and to share

All the reason, all the uncertainty

And all the emotion we've stored up there.

That person adds new perspective to our hidden realm,

Then quietly settles down

In his own corner of our special place,

Where a bit of himself will stay forever.

     And we call that person a friend.

Friends

  In life, we face many obstacles, long and short, thick and thin, off and on.

 In our personal journeys toward becoming better people, we gain valuable friendships,

 lasting memories, and many other experiences which help us continue in life along

the right road with the right people. These people are called friends. In good times,

friends are easy to make and keep. If the world was pure and good, everyone would be friends,

 but that is not true. True friends are those that stand with you through good and bad,

 easy and hard times. A friendship without hard times is like a muscle without exercise.

 It can die out. A friendship which has endured the difficulties, odds, and ends of life

will grow and affirm in strength. Remember that a best friend is one that will always listen

and be ready to take the pain as well as the good in life standing by your side always.

~Carson Weber

Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart.

Cling to them as you would your life,

for without them life is meaningless.

 -Nancye Sims-

A little nonsense

now and then,

is relished by the wisest men!

-Willy Wonka-

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile,

the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty,

work and rest, living close to nature.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically

 filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue

of the universe of your life! It is yours.

It is the most precious of possessions.

No one can take it from you.

 And no one receives either more

 or less than you receive.

  ~Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

The best things in life are nearest:

Breath in your nostrils,

light in your eyes,

flowers at your feet,

duties at your hand,

the path of right just before you.

Then do not grasp at the stars,

but do life's plain, common work as it comes,

certain that daily duties and daily bread

 are the sweetest things in life.

  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Life's Little Instructions

Every so often you push your luck.

Never underestimate the power of a kind word or deed.

Never give up on anybody -- miracles happen every day.

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

Learn to listen.

Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.

Don't expect others to listen to your advice or ignore your example.

Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

Leave everything a little better than you found it.

Don't forget: a person's emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.

Make new friends but cherish the old ones.

Don't use time or words carelessly, neither can be retrieved.

Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love.

Smile a lot: it costs nothing and is beyond price.

-author unknown

"Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker.

A popular fellow such as I am

--my friends get round me -

we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories

 --and somehow my tongue gets wagging.

 I have the gift of conversation. "

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)

 Scottish author

Toad, in "The Wind in the Willows,"

True friendship brings sunshine to the shade,

and shade to the sunshine.

~Thomas Burke

"Successful marriage is always a triangle:

 a man, a woman, and God."

~Cecil Myers

"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans:

it's lovely to be silly at the right moment.

~Horace

It is said that our anxiety

 does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows,

 but only empties today of its strength.   

   ~Charles H. Spurgeon

Do you not see that I am your friend!

Do you not see that I will always be your friend!

~Wind in His Hair, Dances With Wolves

Call it a clan, call it a network,

call it a tribe, call it a family.

 Whatever you call it,

whoever you are,

you need one.

~Jane Howard

My dreams were all my own;

 I accounted for them to nobody;

 they were my refuge when annoyed

 -- my dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man

 . . .you will get better results if you just watch him laugh.

 If he laughs well, he' s a good man.

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No memory is ever alone;

it's at the end of a trail of memories,

a dozen trails that each have

their own associations.

~Louis L'Amour

A faithful friend is a strong defense;

 And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

~Louisa May Alcott

I not only use all the brains I have,

 but all I can borrow.

~Woodrow Wilson

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress

 one can wear in society."

-William Makepeace Thackeray

Remember Your ABCs

Avoid negative sources, people, things and habits

Believe in yourself

Consider things from every angle

Don't give up and don't give in

Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone, tomorrow may never come

Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches

Give more than you planned to

Hang on to your dreams

Ignore those who try to discourage you

Just do it

Keep trying no matter how hard it seems, it will get easier

Love yourself first and most

Make it happen

Never lie, cheat or steal, always strike a fair deal

Open your eyes and see things as they really are

Practice makes perfect

Quitters never win and winners never quit

Read, study and learn about everything important in your life

Stop procrastinating

Take control of your destiny

Understand yourself in order to better understand others

Visualize it

Want it more than anything

Xellerate your efforts

You are unique of all God's creations, nothing can replace you

Zero in on your target and go for it!

When a friend speaks to me,

whatever he says is interesting.

~Jean Renoir

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend,

the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

Barbara Tuchman

"...Provision there had been for just such meeting  

Of stranger cousins, in a family tree..."

~by Robert Frost

The Generations of Men. Frost, Robert. 1915. North of Boston

Fishing Quotes for the Day

The man who goes fishing gets something more

 than the fish he catches.

Mary Astor

Man can learn a lot from fishing --

when the fish are biting

no problem in the world is

big enough to be remembered.

Orlando A. Battista

Many men go fishing their entire lives

 without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Fishing is much more than fish. ...

It is the great occasion when we may return

 to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Herbert Hoover

The big fish is caught with big bait.

Sierra Leonean Proverb

Some people are under the impression

 that all that is required to make a good fisherman

is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing;

but this is a mistake.

Jerome K. Jerome

Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it.

 It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it

but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.

Brenda Ueland

On the other hand....

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it.

I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Agatha Christie

[ from "Endless Night"]

 Sometimes just a smile on our face

 can help to make this world a better place.

~Robert Alan

What I admire in Columbus

 is not his having discovered a world

 but his having gone to search for it

on the faith of an opinion.

~Robert Turgot

You are always my friend

when I am happy

or when I am sad

when I am all alone

or when I am with people

You are always my friend

if I see you today

or if I see you a year from now

if I talk to you today

or if I talk to you a year from now

You are always my friend

and though through the years

we will change

it doesn't matter what I do

or it doesn't matter what you do

Throughout our lifetime

you are always my friend

 -Poem by Susan Polis Schutz

Work consists of whatever a body

 is obliged to do,

and play consists of whatever a body

 is not obliged to do.

~Mark Twain

The Arrow and the Song

I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where:

For so swiftly it flew, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight.

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?

Long, long afterward, in an oak,

I found the arrow still unbroke;

And the song, from beginning to end,

I found again in the heart of a friend.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A man is not paid for having a head and hands,

 but for using them.

  ~Elbert Hubbard

"For me, still photographs capture a moment of time

 that will never be repeated.

And yet years later, I can enjoy

 those moments again and again.

It is the miracle of photography."

~R.C. Schmidt

If a man does not keep pace with his companions

 perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music he hears

however measured and far away.

  ~Henry David Thoreau

Good morning!

And in case I don't see you:

 good afternoon, good evening and good night!

~Truman Burbank; "The Truman Show"

The advantage of a bad memory

is that one enjoys several times

the same good things for the first time.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

It's a pleasure to share one's memories.

 Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious.

At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time.

 We know it now. Because it's in the past;

because we have survived.

~Susan Sontag

Be grateful for the home you have,

 knowing that at this moment,

all you have is all you need.

~Sarah Ban Breathnach

There are some days I practice positive thinking,

and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.

~John M. Eades

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree,

but in the hearts of true friends.

~Cindy Lew

What lies behind us

 and what lies before us

 are tiny matters

 compared to what lies within us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Laughter and tears are both responses

 to frustration and exhaustion . . . .

I myself prefer to laugh,

since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

In a friend you find a second self.

 ~Isabelle Norton

"The joy that isn't shared dies young."

-Anne Sexton

ANCESTORS

What's in a name?

The talented poet asked.

Look deep -- listen:

The pulse of our ancestors.

The heartbeat of nations past

Land, Language, Faith.

Look into a name.

What do you see?

Letters only?

Look deeper.

See the people

Who lived that name.

Not letters -- but flesh and blood.

Flesh to our flesh.

Blood to our blood.

Faith to our faith.

Ancestors.

You who bore my name,

Were your thoughts passed to me?

Do I dream your dreams?

The sun you saw I see.

The moon plays for us both.

Days are days.

Years are years.

But centuries separate us.

You who lived centuries ago

With my name.

Did you see me then?

You have not left this earth!

You live in my name.

You live in me.

I give you earthly immortality.

My eyes see a different land.

My ears hear different sounds.

But we worship in unison.

The God of your youth.

My faith you have given me.

The God who watched over you

Watches over me.

Centuries collapse as Faith unites.

Leave you, my ancestor?

I could never leave you

Without leaving myself.

I take pride in you.

The soil of your homeland

Rests in my heart.

Your native language

Is the melody of your dreams.

I look into your name

And see myself.

written by W.H. Zoschak (a Slovak)

Yesterday is but today's memory,

and tomorrow is today's dream.

   ~Kahlil Gibran

I am a part of all that I have seen.

  ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Give me one friend, just one,

who meets the needs of all my varying moods.

~Esther M. Clark

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend,

to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes

- and whatever lies upon the heart.

~Francis Bacon

Pain is life

- the sharper,

the more evidence of life.

~Charles Lamb

The most wonderful of all things in life,

I believe, is the discovery of another human being

 with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth,

beauty, and joy as the years increase.

~Sir Hugh Walpole

Happiness...is time spent with a friend

 and looking forward to sharing time with them again.

~Lee Wilkinson

He has not learned the lesson of life

 who does not every day surmount a fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination

 in two persons to promote

 the good and happiness of one another.

~Eustace Budgell

The world is so empty if one thinks

 only of mountains, rivers and cities;

but to know someone who thinks and feels with us,

and who, though distant is close to us in spirit,

this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

~Goethe (1749-1832)

A photograph is a secret about a secret.

 The more it tells you the less you know.

~Diane Arbus

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.

It has no survival value:

rather, it is one of those things

that gives value to survival.

~C. S. Lewis

Because of our routines we often forget

 that life is an ongoing adventure.

~Maya Angelou

"If we stand tall it is because we stand

 on the shoulders of many ancestors."

~Yoruba proverb

"There are two kinds of people: 

those who finish what they start,

and so on...."

~Robert Byrne

Bouquet of Friendship

Within my heart

you planted a seed,

a seed of friendship

which started with hello

and learning we had

something in common

Over time the seed grew

watered with the kindness

of your caring ways,

blossoming in the warmth

of your smile,

coming alive in

friendly conversation

and words of encouragement

in times of rough weather

It's hard for a seed to survive

but our friendship

has proven strong,

rising above all that threatens

to strain it

From a tiny seed

planted so long ago

grew within my heart

a beautiful bouquet of love, joy,

kindness, sharing, tolerance and

understanding

So now in the hearts of others

I plant seeds so that they too

might bloom into a

beautiful bouquet of friendship

which you have given me

   -Poem by  Debbie Berk

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world

 and the best that we find is an honest friend.

He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.

They are the end and reward of life.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."

~Calvin and Hobbes

"When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruples.

Take it and copy it."

  ~Mark Twain

"To live in fear is a life half-lived."

Spanish proverb,

quoted in the film "Strictly Ballroom"

"Every waking moment of our lives,

 we operate from one of two viewpoints: human or divine.

The more popular of the two is human,

the more fruitful of the two is divine."

~Chuck Swindoll

"I don’t want to be anything special.

I only want to try to be true to that in me

 which seeks to fulfill its promise."

~Etty Hillsum

"About the time we can make ends meet,

somebody moves the ends."

~Herbert Hoover

A Friend

A  friend is

someone who is concerned with everything you do

A friend is

someone who is concerned with everything you think

A friend is

someone to call upon during good times

A friend is

someone to call upon during bad times

A friend is

someone who understands whatever you do

A friend is

someone who tells you the truth about yourself

A friend is

someone who knows what you are going through at all times

A friend is

someone who refuses to listen to gossip about you

A friend is

someone who supports you at all times

A friend is

someone who does not compete with you

A friend is

someone who is genuinely happy for you when things go well

A friend is

someone who tries to cheer you up when things don't go well

A friend is

an extension of yourself without which you are not complete

Thank you for being my friend!!!

~Susan Polis Schutz 

Friends are as companions on a journey,

who ought to aid each other

 to persevere in the road

 to a happier life.

~Pythagoras

Plant a seed of friendship;

 reap a bouquet of happiness.

~Lois L. Kaufman

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself;

but each of us can work to change

 a small portion of events,

 and in the total of all those acts

 will be written the history

 of this generation.

~Robert F. Kennedy

Country Roads

How lovely is a country road

  With Shady trees that line the way,

Where wildflowers lend a special grace

Of beauty to an autumn day

How friendly is a country road

Where those who chance to pass our way

 Are quick to give a bright "hello"

 Which adds a niceness to our day.

How peaceful is a country road

Awinding 'round a dappled hill;

Where in the stillness one can hear

 The sweetness of the bluebird's trill.

~Beverly J. Anderson

If you meet someone without a smile

give that person yours,

it cost nothing,

but will pay rich dividends.

  Some reckon time by stars,

     And some by hours;

      Some measure days by dreams

     And some by flowers;

     My heart alone records

     My days and hours.

 ~Madison J. Cawein

Happiness isn't the easiest thing to find,

but one place you're guaranteed to find it

 is in a friend's smile.

~Allison Poler

Nothing will content him

who is not content with a little.

Greek Proverb

Happiness is inward, and not outward;

and so, it does not depend on what we have,

but on what we are.

-- Henry Van Dyke

"A vacation is having nothing to do

 and all day to do it in."

~Robert Orben

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,

Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces

That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

~George Gordon Byron (aka Lord Byron)

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