Serious Quotes


Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning--definitely the sensation
	of belonging there.
				--E.B. White


Your words are my food, your breath my wine.  You are everything to me.
				--Sarah Bernhardt


All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love...
				--Marquis de Lafayette


Oh, what good will writing do?  I want to put my hand out and touch you.  I want
	to do for you and care for you.  I want to be there when you're sick and when
	you're lonesome.
				--Edith Wharton


Follow your heart because your heart will know the love that is meant for you.
				--Anonymous


One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffereing to get it...and 
	the journey is always towards the other soul...
				--D. H. Lawrence


Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
				--John Keats


Music is love in search of a word.
				--Unknown


Pains of love be sweeter than all other pleasures are.
				--John Dryden


True love doesn't have a happy ending; true love doesn't have an ending.
				--Unknown


Love can find a way
				--Ancient proverb


My heart is ever at your service
				--William Shakespeare


...And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it
	and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter 
	how we give ourselves, we always end up losing.  That to love is to lose, the
	moment we agree to bargain.  And that, being human, we keep standing there 
	wanting to lose more
				--Ann Rinaldi


Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same.
				--Emily Bronte


It's a funny thing about life:  If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
	you very often get it.
				--W. Somerset Maugham


Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
				--Bernard Berenson


To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
				--David Viscott, M.D.


You must do the things you think you cannot do.
				--Eleanor Roosevelt


...violence is the sign of temporary weakness.
				--Jean James


Professionals built the Titanic--amateurs the ark.
				--Frank Pepper


Be kind.  Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
				--Thompson


Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.  The minute it crops up, all our
	irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
				--Mark Twain


Hatred is blind as well as love.
				--Thomas Fuller


What luck for rulers that men do not think.
				--Adolf Hitler


We are all pilgrims on the same journey--but some pilgrims have better road maps.
				--Nelson DeVille


The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
				--Robert Frost


Successful people are very lucky.  Just ask any failure.
				--Michael Levine


Common sense is not so common.
				--Voltaire


The curtain is lifting.  We can have triumph, or tragedy, for we are the play-
	wrights, the actors, and the audience.
				--John Macauley


The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
				--Andrew Carnegie


Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
				--Elsa Maxwell


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 which he hears, however
	measured or far away.
				--Henry David Thoreau


When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
				--Nigerian proverb


We do not remember days, we remember moments.
				--Cesare Pavese


You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
				--Colette


It is kindness in a person, not beauty, which wins our love.
				--Anonymous


There are always two choices, two paths to take.  One is easy.  And its only
	reward is that it's easy.
				--Unknown


It's alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
				--Mick Jagger


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


Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
				--Helen Hayes


Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.
	Tell him a bench has wet paint and he'll have to touch to be sure.
				--Jaeger


You were born with Wings.  Why prefer to crawl through life?
				--Rumi


Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
				--Theodore Roosevelt


Funny how a dollar can look so big when you take it to church, and so small when
	you take it to the store.
				--Frank Clark


Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
				--Meg Greenfield


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life.  IT GOES ON.
				--Robert Frost


We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our
	compassion, our dedication to human welfare.
				--Hubert H. Humphrey


The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to 
	let them.
				--Robert Frost


Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.
				--Scott Adams


Classical music is one of the best thing that ever happened to mankind.  If you
	get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.
				--Yo-Yo Ma


I can't make people like me, but if I wasn't me, but if I wasn't me, I wouldn't
	like me.
				--Third-grader


You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments that stand out 
	are the moments when you have done things for others.
				--Henry Drummond


Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone,
	stop every motor, and halt all activity for an hour some day, to give people
	a chance to ponder for a few moments on what it is all about, why they are
	living and what they really want.
				--James Truslow Adams


Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this:
	LET PEOPLE BE DIFFERENT.
				--David Grayson


The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
				--Henrik Ibsen


Enjoy yourself.  These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years
	ahead.
				--Anonymous



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