"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
- Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
"Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence."
- Samuel Butler
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
- Franz Kafka
"An orator or author is never successful till he has
learned to make his words smaller than his ideas."
-Emerson (1803-1882)
American Poet and Essayist
"Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers."
-Hans Christian Anderson (1802-1875)
Danish Poet, Novelist, and Dramatist
"Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us further than to-day."
-Longfellow (1819-1892)
American Poet
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
-Willa Cather
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
-Victor Hugo
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
-Anon.
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."
-Javan
"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place."
-Anon.
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
-David Grayson
"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
-Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
-Buddha
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
-Henry Drummond
"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
-Anna Louise Strong
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
-Buddha
"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy."
-Anon.
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
-Elbert Hubbard
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."
-E. V. Lucas
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
-Ana�s Nin
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
-Swedish Proverb
"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Gandhi
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
-Richard Bach
"All life is an experiment.""Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
-Anon
"May you live every day of your life."
-Jonathan Swift
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
-Buddha
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
-Henry David Thoreau
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