Some of my favorite quotes



I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"


"I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had." ~From the television show The Wonder Years


"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it does not brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough." Ann Landers


"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to reach them." ~Lousia May Alcott


"True love can not be hidden where it truly exists,just as it can not be found where it truly does not."~unknown


"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days til they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes alwys to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." ~Woodrow Wilson


"Groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having." ~John Perry


"The best part of life is not surviving, but thriving......
...with passion and compassion
...and humor and style
...and generosity and kindness."~Maya Angelou


"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." ~Albert Schweitzer


"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and dispair,but manifestations of strength and resolution."~Kahlil Gibran


"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul an another."~George Eliot


"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." ~Albert Schweitzer


"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential." ~Rusty Berkus


"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."~Michael Jordan


"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and ;disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."~Joseph Addison


"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."~Maya Angelou


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


"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die-- whether it is our spirit, or creativity, or our glorious uniqueness." ~Gilda Radner


"We forgive to the extent that we love."~Francois de La Rochefoucauld


"When you come to the edge of all the light you know,and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." ~Barbara J. Winter


"If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen."~Cher


"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."~Victor Hugo


"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." ~Emily Kimbrough


"Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art, ;words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart."~Suzanne Nichols


"You see things and say 'Why?'; but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' "~George Bernard Shaw


"Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
as long as ever you can."~John Wesley


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