do not let the good things of life rob you of the best things... buster rothman
woman was created from the rib of man... she was not made from his head, to top him, nor out of his feet, to be trampled upon, but out of his side, to be equal to him, under his arm, to be protected, and near his heart, to be loved...
true peace is not merely the absence of tension, but it is the presence of justice and brotherhood... martin luther king
write on your hearts that every day is the best day of the year... ralph waldo emerson
the mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one... william stekel
the object of life is to become involved with people; to give, to give of ourselves till it hurts, and hurt we will be time and time again...to be loved is nothing, to love is a journey... not an end...
the great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it... emerson
come into the mountains, dear friend... leave society and take no one with you but your true self... get close to nature... your everyday dreams will be insignificant... notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns and try to do that with your life... susan polis schutz...
everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence... helen keller
becoming is superior to being... paul klee
i'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance... ee cummings
the tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives... albert schweitzer
how lovely the world would be if each person could weave a dream, to keep from despair...
the day you no longer burn with love, many others will die of the cold...
god did not give us two arms to keep people away from us... mrs walton
the language of friendship is not words but meaning... henry david thoreau
happiness is anyone or anything at all loved by you... c brown
i've saved some sunlight, if you should ever need a place away from darkness... rod mckuen
in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed... kahlil gibran
choose life...only that and always, and at whatever risk... to let life leak out, to let it wear away by the mere passage of time, to withhold giving it and spreading it is to choose nothing... sr helen kelley
we are molded and remolded by those who love us...
love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty...
a friend is the half of my soul... st augustine
champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern; live your own life and follow your own star...
your friend is your needs answered...he is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving... gibran
strange we never prize the music until the sweet bird of youth has flown...
a false friend is like a shadow, only there when the sun is shining...
never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or convictions...
we're not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through... peter de vries
a man's reach should exceed his grasp... robert browning
i do my thing and you do your thing...i am not in this world to live up to your expectations... and you are not in this world to live up to mine... you are you and i am i, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful... frederick s peris
not to decide is to decide...
as we live, we are transmitters of life...and when we fail to transmit life, life fails to flow through us...but giving is not so easy... it doesn't mean handing life out to some mean fool... or letting the living dead eat you up... it means kindling life's quality where it was not... d.h. lawrence
every new opinion, at its starting is precisely in a minority of one... thomas carlyle
the universe is not to be narrowed down to the limits of the understanding, which has been men's presence up to now, but the understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered... francis bacon
to see the world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour... william blake
from without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it... herman melville
everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification...crude, rough and unsymmetrical... but in nature, every bit of life is lovely...and the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes...
we shape our world with new creations and afterward our world shapes us for generations stretching into generations...man, if he is too impatient to care, can end this miracle, can terminate a chain of life going back without interruption to an old eternity when life first strove to leave the mother sea... david brown
the kinds and ways of man are many, and in this diversity is found the key to human survival and development... jack conrad
the world must be kept safe for differences... clyde kluckhohn
every man in certain aspects is like all other men, like some other men, like no other man... clyde kluckhohn
you have not conquered a man because you have silenced him...
stand up for something or you'll fall for nothing...
the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present... abraham lincoln
in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed... gibran
just living life as it comes along... "calico palace"
a faithful friend is a sturdy shelter...he who has found one has found a treasure... sirach 6:14
you see things as they are and you ask "why?"...but i dream things that never were and i ask "why not?"... robert kennedy, george bernard shaw
dream what you dare to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be...live!... jonathon livingston seagull
when friends are together, it's always summer in the heart...
when through one man a little more love and goodness, a little more light and truth comes into the world, then that man's life has had meaning... alfred delp
accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart...
love doubles one's joys and divides one's griefs...
let the morning time drop all its petals on me...life, i love you...
life...you're only on this earth once...you've got to give it all you've got... ethel kennedy
nothing matters half so much...to reassure one another, to answer each other... perhaps only you can listen to me and not laugh... ugo betti
i get by with a little help from my friends... lennon, mccartney
today is the first day of the rest of your life...
a friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when memory fails...
bloom where you are planted now...
enjoy what you are...
friendship needs no words...it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness...
a great man is he who never loses the heart of a child...
a friend is someone who leaves you with all your freedom intact, but who obliges you to be fully what you are...
let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me...
if you cry because of losing the sun, your tears will not allow you to see the stars... tagore
there is nothing permanent except change...
time is too slow for those who wait; too swift for those who fear; too long for those who grieve; too short for those who rejoice; but those who love, time is not...
no matter how long the night, the day is sure to come...
today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday...
worry is either too early or too late...
to wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another of loving... gibran
today is tomorrow's yesterday...
understanding is life revealing itself to you...
people are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges...
hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality...
to love someone is to give them room enough to grow...
we can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise, if we have waited in darkness...
may you live all the days of your life... jonathan swift
god, grant us serenity to accept the things we cannot change... courage to change the things we can and wisdom to know the difference...
the harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us... albert camus
become the one you dream you can be...
to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often... newman
learn from yesterday...live for today...hope for tomorrow...
all that we love deeply becomes a part of us...
the earth is full of wonders when seen with the eyes of wonder...
it's been a long and lonely night but now...here comes the sun... the beatles
life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved...
you have touched me...i have grown...
true love is delicate and kind; full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace; full of unutterable joy...
love is always leaving oneself to go toward others...
when life gives you lemons, make lemonade...
love is a form of self-discovery...
to me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle...every cubic inch of space is a miracle... walt whitman
to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck that which is planted; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to breakdown and a time to buildup; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to keep from embracing; a time to get and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away; a time to rend and a time to sew; a time to keep silence and a time to speak; a time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace... ecclesiastes
the evil which was suffered patiently as inevitable seems unendurable as soon as the idea of escaping from it crosses men's minds... tocqueville
love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter...
the door to happiness opens outward... suren kierkegaard
man is nothing else but what he makes of himself... jean-paul sartre
last year we said, "things can't go on like this" and they didn't...they got worse... will rogers
there ain't no man around can avoid being born average...but there ain't no man got to be common... stachel paige
not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced... james baldwin
a little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle... gibran
tradition does not mean a dead thing that is handed down by dying pedants, but rather a living thing that insists on handing itself on in an endless variety of new forms through the living minds that it possesses and dominates... casserly
our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can... ralph waldo emerson
man wanders over the restless sea...the flowing waters...the sight of the sky...and forgets that of all the wonders, man himself is the most wonderful... st augustine
don't walk in front of me...i may not follow...don't walk behind me...i may not lead... walk beside me...and just be my friend... camus
happiness is for those who do not expect it at every moment...who receive it as a gift and who know how to live without it at times...
i wouldn't swap one wrinkle on my face for all the elixirs of youth...every one of these wrinkles represents a smile or a grimace of pain and disappointment... they represent some part of being fully alive and that was what i aimed for... helen hayes
a contented spirit is the sweetness of existence... dickens
and what is a weed? a plant whose virtues have not been discovered... emerson
what i must do is all that concerns me and not what people think... emerson
the years write their records on men's hearts as they do on trees: inner circles of growth which no eye can see... saxe holm
anxiety is the poison of human life... blair
if you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be built; now put foundations under them... thoreau
music is the universal language of mankind... longfellow
a friend is a person with whom i may be sincere...before him i may think aloud... emerson
only in the loves we have for others than ourselves, can we truly live or die... philip brooks
it is not growing like a tree in bulk, doth make man better be, or standing long an oak, three hundred years, to fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear: a lily of a day is fairer far in may, although it fall and die that night...it was the plant and flower of light...in small proportions we just beauties see...and in short measures life may perfect be... ben jonson
love must reach out and touch the heart of another...
every person is born an island, more of an island than our planet in the midst of space, an island is his own family, in his own mysterious body, in his intimate thoughts... but as long as i remain that island, i am not truly myself... i can only become myself by knowing the other man... i must throw out my bridge and hope in the the other that he too will build his bridge toward me... no bridge in the world is long enough to reach the next island...
what need we teach a child...with our books and rules? let him walk among the hills and flowers, let him gaze upon the waters, let him look up to the stars...and he will have his wisdom...
if you love me, you will remember...if you do not, it is better that we both forget...
how easy the breath that kills a flame...how hard to kindle that light again... cold words kill and kind words kindle...by words withheld, a dream may dwindle...
what matters? very little... only the flickers of light...within the darkness, the feelings of warmth...within the cold, the knowledge of love within the void...
make the world your classroom...
it is human to wish to share the risk of error and to feel the comforting strength of outside support, like the flying buttresses along the wall of a medieval cathedral...but the strong man, the one who gives free enterprise its vitality, is the man who weighs thoughts...fully the entire range of available opinion and then determines policy by relying solely on his own judgment... clarence b randall
thinking is the talking of the soul with itself... plato
the night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one... yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun... the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one... yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done... f.w. bourdillon
let the world be better, brighter, for your having trod its way... let your light be seen afar ere sinks down life's little day... sister dora
people so seldom say i love you...and then it's either too late or love goes, so when i tell you i love you, it doesn't mean i know you'll never go, only that i wish you didn't have to... lawrence craig-green
normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are...let me learn from you, love you, savor you, bless you before you depart...let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow...let me hold you while i may, for it will not always be so... one day i shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky, and want more than all the world your return... mary jean irion
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