i keep this list on my desk of things that people say to me or qupte to me. here's some of the good stuff:
"When you were born,
you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice."
~Cherokee Proverb
"Life is either a daring adventure,
or nothing."
~Helen Keller
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
~Khalil Gibran
"And think not you can guide the course of love.
For love, if it finds you worthy,
shall guide your course."
~Kahlil Gibran
"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
~Kahlil Gibran
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.
Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring
and more clearly visible to one passing through the valleynthan to those who inhabit the mountain?
~Khalil Gibran
"Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine."
~Buddha
(see, Mr Enigma... i told you that you were a Buddist at heart - you say this to me in so many words so often)
"Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love."
~ Lao Tzu
"There is no instinct like that of the heart."
~ Lord Byron
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
~Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
~Mahatma Gandhi
"People demand freedom of speech
to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
~Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
~Mother Teresa
"It is not how much we do,
but how much love we put in the doing.
It is not how much we give,
but how much love we put in the giving."
~Mother Teresa
"Spread love everywhere you go:
first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a wife
or husband, to a next-door neighbor."
~ Mother Teresa
"Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and in reach of every hand."
~Mother Teresa
"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."
~ Mother Teresa
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
~Mother Teresa
(i am one of her greatest fans, btw)
"Love is something eternal,
the aspect may change,
but not the essence."
~Vincent Van Gogh
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you.
Continue to be my friend,
as you will always find me yours."
~Ludwig van Beethoven
"Here is a test to find out whether
your mission in life is complete.
If you're alive, it isn't."
~Richard Bach
"People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
~St. Augustine
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
~St. Augustine
"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time."
~Jack London
"To think is easy.
To act is hard.
But the hardest thing in the world
is to act in accordance with your thinking."
~Goethe
"When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot in it and hang on."
~Thomas Jefferson
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
~Aristotle
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
~Friedrich Nietzsche
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
~Socrates
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
~Albert Einstein
(he's the man.)
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
~Albert Einstein
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."
~Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
~Albert Einstein
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth,
and cease only at death."
~Albert Einstein
"Dream as if you'll live forever,
live as if you'll die today."
~James Dean
"Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of."
~Benjamin Franklin
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
~William Shakespeare
(from Macbeth)
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep;
The more I give to thee
The more I have,
For both are infinite."
~William Shakespeare
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
~Henry David Thoreau
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
~Plato
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature
and embroidered by imagination."
~Voltaire
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life.
That word is love."
~Sophocles
"All, everything that I understand,
I understand only because I love."
~Leo Tolstoy
"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
~Nigerian Proverb
"It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn'ts,
the impossibles,
the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves,
then listen close to me...
Anything can happen, child.
Anything can be."
~Shel Silverstein
(my children were raised on this theory)
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
~A.A. Milne (ahh, Pooh)
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
~Katherine Hepburn
"Love never dies a natural death.
It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.
It dies of illness and wounds;
it dies of weariness,
of witherings,
of tarnishings."
~Anais Nin
"To live without loving is to not really live."
~Moliere
"The best portion of a good man’s life:
his little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and love."
~William Wordsworth
