= My Personal Favorites
"To laugh often and much; to win respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
"Be true to the ones you love and happiness shall forever live in our heart. And with that you shall survive with the best of them."
"The universe speaks in many languages but only one voice. The language is not Narn or Human or Centauri or Gaim or Minbari. It speaks in the language of hope. It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul. But always it is the same voice. It is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us and the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born. It is the small still voice that says "we are one." No matter the blood, no matter the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star...we are one. No matter the pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter the fear...we are one. Here, gathered together in common cause, we agree to recognize this singular truth, and this singular rule, that we must be kind to one another. Because each voice enriches us and enobles us and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light the way to a better future. We are one."
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
"The distance is nothing, it's the first step that is difficult."
"We are not here to see through one another, we are here to see one another through."
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
"People are lonely because they build walls not bridges."
"Some of the best things in life are neither seen or heard; but felt within."
"Life isn't about what you are, it's about who you are."
"You live and die and make a lot of mistakes in between."
"The only person you have to impress is yourself."
"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."
"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
"When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries, and you rejoice."
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
"You can't find love, love finds you."
"Apologize. Forgive. Forget about getting even. God will settle the score."
"Love at first sight has everything to do with fate, and nothing to do with common sense."
"I will stare down the sun until my eyes go blind. I won't change my direction and I won't change my mind."
"What's amazing is when you can actually feel your life going somewhere. Like it just figured out how to get good."
"Value the friends you have while they're around. You never know when they'll be gone."
"Let our love not be compared to a flower that only blooms in summer, but to a river that flows forever."
"We got money for wars, but can't feed the poor."
I've had this one for a few years. I now truly understand it because of my previous experiances. It is my favorite out of all of them.
"When you love somebody they become your life. When they don't want to be your life you have to let them go. In order to do that you must love them more than ever."
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld <
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa
The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
-- Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love