When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
~Japanese Proverb
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
~Sophocles
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
~William Shakespeare
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
~Anthony Burgess
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
~Edgar Allan Poe
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to leave alone.
~Henry David Thoreau
He who obtains has little, he who scatters has much.
Millions who long for immortality don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy day.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only robs today of its strength.
I don't understand. But then, you're small.
The heart that feels not now is dead.
~Thomas Paine
Corner
~ Dr. Suess
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes. ~ Dave Barry
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. ~ Steven Wright
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~ Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
~ Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts
A sanctuary safe and strong.
To heal the wounds of lovers past
Until a new one comes along.
I spoke to you in cautious tones,
You answered me with no pretense.
And still I feel I said too much.
My silence is my self-defense.
And everytime I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns.
And so it goes, and so it goes,
And so will you soon, I suppose.
But if my silence made you leave,
Then that would be my worst mistake.
So I will share this room with you,
And you can have this heart to break.
And this is why my eyes are closed.
It's just as well for all I've seen.
And so it goes, and so it goes.
And you're the only one who knows.
So I would choose to be with you.
That's if the choice were mine to make.
But you can make decisions, too,
And you can have this heart to break.
And so it goes, and so it goes.
And you're the only one who knows.
("And So It Goes" Billy Joel)
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes -
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subleties.
Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
~Paul Laurence Dunbar
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
~ Karen Raven
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before it’s June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~ Dr. Seuss
Then most I pine for thee;
Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes,
As stars look on the sea.
~ Baron E. G. Bulwer-Lytton
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. ~Thomas Arnold Bennett
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. ~Helen Adams Keller
To those mysterious lands you long to see:
Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fairs
And moonlit woods where unicorns run free.
So come and walk awhile with me and share
The twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known.
But this bridge will only take you halfway there--
The last few steps you'll have to take alone.
~Shel Silverstein
Someone is thinking of me and loving me tonight.
Somewhere out there someone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another in that big somewhere out there.
And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star.
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
Somewhere out there if love can see us through
Then we'll be together somewhere out there,
Out where dreams come true.