Quotes

Blessed are they who tenderly seek to comfort another and never run out of compassion and grace.  - Janet L. Weaver-Smith

We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in the full glow of love for others.  - Walter Rauschenbusch

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  - Elisabeth Foley

There are 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

Love to me is when you walk out on that "one more thing" and say, "Nothing will come between you and me. Not even one thing." - Sara Groves

The wonder of living is held within the beauty of silence, the glory of sunlight... the sweetness of fresh spring air, the quiet strength of heart, and the love that lies at the very root of all things.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.  - Martin Luther King Jr.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet.  But the minute you find yourself in that position, the next thing you should do is reach out your arms for a friend.  - Kristin Hunter Lattany

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Intimacy may not be rushed... Inwardness is time-consuming, open only to minds willing to sample spirituality in small bites, savoring each one.  - Calvin Miller

If a friend loves me, I'm not left wondering about the status of our relationship; she'll tell me.  If a friend truly loves me, I won't wonder if my words were too direct or my behavior troubling; she'll tell me.  There is nothing like the truth.  - Marilyn Meberg

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.  - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Compassion means to lay a bridge over to the other without knowing whether he wants to be reached.  - Henri M. Nouwen

It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another.  - George Macdonald

Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.  - American Proverb

You must understand this, my beloved: Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.  - James 1:19 NRSV

It's the journey, not the destination

"Ancora Imparo" (I am still learning) - Michaelangelo in his 80's.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return - Maria Edgeworth

Friendships need to be nurtured and guarded and fought for.  We need to call one another without waiting to be called first. We need to ask how our friends are doing and really listen to their answers. Listen between the lines. - Stasi Eldredge

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.   - Confucius

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  - Ralph Waldo Emmerson

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, who's presence calls forth your best.  - Epictetus

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but for greatness, because greatness is determined by service.  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.   - Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.  Jim Bishop

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.  - Rody Yee

To perceive is to suffer  - Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.  - Aristotle

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.  - Eugene Kennedy

For all that has been, thanks.  For all that shall be, yes.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.  - Chief Joseph

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.  - Mark Twain

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.  - Josephine Baker

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.  - John Stuart Mill

We are what we repeatedly do.  - Aristotle

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.   - Confucius

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

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln

Men always want to be a woman's first love.  Women like to be a man's last romance.  - Oscar Wilde

It's never too late to be what you might have been.  - George Elliot

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.   - Margaret Fuller

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.  - St. Augustine

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.  - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.  - Nathanial Hawthorne

I would have  written you a shorter letter, but I didn't have time.   - Mark Twain

If you want to be loved, be loveable. - Ovid

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.   - Winston Churchill

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.  - Abraham Lincoln

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.  - Francois Mauriac

Where there is love, there is life.  - Mahatma Gandhi

Live the life you imagined.  - Henry David Thoreau

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.  - Joseph Addison

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.  - Vi Putnam

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

True happiness is... to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.  - Seneca the Younger

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.  - Aristotle

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.  - Marcel Proust

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely the best.  - Joseph Parry

Everything is on its way to something.  - George Malley (John Travolta) in "Phenomenon"

I shall take you as I find you if you'll do as much for me.  - King Arthur (Sean Connery) in "First Knight"

Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been there.  - Quoted by Bonnie Raitt in concert

Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage-the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.   - Howard Cosell

We are the choices we make.  - Meryl Streep

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.  - Confucius

I've learned that the greatest threat to love is not circumstance but the absence of attention. For we do not neglect others because we cease to love them. Rather we cease to love others because we have neglected them. I've learned that each day is a miracle unearned. I've learned that while life is ephemeral, a vapor, love is not. In short, I've learned what matters and what does not. I don't know what the future holds or even in whose hands it lies, but I know where I am, what I have, and it is enough.  - From "The Perfect Day" by Richard Paul Evans

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.  - Alan Watts

Namaste' - I honor the light in you which is also in me.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.  - Abraham Lincoln

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?  - Friedrich Nietzsche

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.  - Bertrand Russell

Watch your habits for they become your character.  Develop your character for it becomes your destiny.

Its not how much love we give but how much love we put into giving.  - Mother Teresa

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can only learn to love by loving.  - Iris Murdoch

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.  - Abraham Lincoln

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.  - Hermann Hesse

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.   - Anton Chekhov

And the song, from beginning to end is found again in the heart of a friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind.  - Jan Myrdal

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the full light of day.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - this can make life a garden.  - Johann Wolfgang VanGoethe

Running is the greatest metaphor for life because you get out of it what you put into it.   - Oprah Winfrey

The deed is mightier than the word.

Sometimes you have to let go of what you can't live without.

I ran and ran every day, and I acquired a sense of determination, this sense of spirit, that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.   - Wilma Rudolph

No road is long with good company  - Turkish proverb

Don't become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness within you

Your actions speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Even a thought, even a possibility can shatter us and transform us.  - Frederick Nietzsche

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.  - John Milton

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world, is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, reality, to something more positive.  - Shakti Gawain

Action is the antidote to despair.  - Joan Baez

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.  The hard part is doing it.  - H. Norman Schwarzkopf

A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.  - Basil

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.  - Albert Camus

It is ironic that we try to impress people by saying clever or funny things, yet nothing binds one human being to another more than the sense that they have been deeply, carefully listened to.  It is no accident that we speak of paying attention to people; attention is the most valuable currency we have.   - John Ortberg