Quotes

Long were you a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she woke to give you birth.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Here in the midst
of a lonely abyss
A single joy I find...
your presence in my mind.

Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-- Helen Keller

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
-- Jessamyn West

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight... When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
-- Helen Keller

I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back...
-- Erica Jong

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
-- Welsh Proverb

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friends are born, not made.
-- Henry Adams

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
-- Mark Twain

Happiness depends on ourselves.
-- Aristotle

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
-- Charles Dickens

He who can does, he who cannot teaches.
-- George Bernard Shaw

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
-- Booker T. Washington

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question.
-- Lily Tomlin

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes... Keep hope alive.
-- Jesse Jackson

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
-- Italian saying

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language.
-- Henry David Thoreau

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
-- Doris Lessing

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
-- June Masters Bacher

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
-- Nadia Boulanger

Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
-- Elizabeth Stone

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
-- Douglas Jerrold

Dance to the music of your dreams;
the steps will bring you joy.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Only mothers can think of the future--because they give birth to it in their children.
-- Maxim Gorky

Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are gone as fast as they grow up--and we have only a short moment with each. When you see a grandfather take a baby in his arms, you see that the moment hasn't always been long enough.
-- St. Clair Adams Sullivan

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say, is what counts.
-- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Real friends are those who upon watching you make a fool of yourself do not feel that the job was done permanently.
-- Anonymous

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-- Anais Nin

The soul needs friendship, the heart needs love.
-- Ed Habib

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
-- Horace

The bravest thing that men do is love women.
-- Mort Sahl

The smile on your face brings a smile to my heart.

It's the special things in life
that make it mean so much,
The sun, the rain, the sky;
the thoughts and the touch.
If we let these precious things
float out to endless sea,
we lose our hope, our love and
all our reason to be.

To reach the goal we must at times run with the wind, other times, against it-- But we must certainly run, not walk, nor stand still.

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman they both touch the heart of eternity.
-- Kahlil Gibran

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
-- C.C. Colton

two hearts
two minds
in time
did find
one love
one aim
two paths
the same
rejoice!
hold fast!
...and love will last.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
-- Peter De Vries

Warm your thoughts and freeze your fears.

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess.
-- Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
-- Alexandre Dumas

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
-- Rudyard Kipling