I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it.
Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. --Joyce Cary

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. --Luciano de Crescenzo

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who Dream only at night" --Edgar Allen Poe

Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Success is knowing that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. --Franz Schubert

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. --Nathaniel Hawthorne

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. --"Ziggy"

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. --Sir Hugh Walpoe

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view. --Wilma Askinas

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. --Jacob Riis

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. --Jessamyn West

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. --William Faulkner

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. --Thomas Fuller

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. --Richard Bach

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do. --Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book The most important things in life aren't things. --Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. --Alexander Graham Bell

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. --Mohammed Neguib

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. --Richard M. Nixon

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these. --George Washington Carver

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul. --Alexandra Stoddard, Gracious Living in a New World

I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one. --Chinese proverb

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. --Homer

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. --Henry Ward Beecher

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. --Edgar Lee Masters

No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see. --Frank Herbert

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. --Garrison Keillor

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 saying

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. --Geri Weitzman

We come and go just like ripples in a stream. --John V. Politis

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. --Chinese Proverb

We don't work for each other, We work with each other. --Stanley C. Gault

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why...
I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? --Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. --Knights of Pythagoras

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. --Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. -- Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)

You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose free will. --Rush, "Free Will"

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. --Mother Theresa

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
--Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream

Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage but then is heard no more, it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. --shakespeare, macbeth

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. --La Rochefoucald

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

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. --Confucius, Analects

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. --Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. --Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Experience is not what happens to us, rather it is what we do with what happens to us. --Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare."---Emerson

"Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul."

"Not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving."---Goethe

Imagination is more than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world." ---Albert Einstein.

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."---Walter Bagehot

"How old are you? Youth is not a time of life- it is a state of mind. You are as young as: your faith, your hope, your confidence. You are as old as: your doubt, your despair, your fear." ---AB Van Velzer.

"Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"What is a freind? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."---Aristotle

"The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime."---Mignon Mclaughlin

"To love another person is to see the face of God" --Les Miserables

"It's not the tears we soak up that do us any hurt, it's the ones we ignore"

"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."

"A friend is a gift you give yourself." ----Robert Louis Stevenson

"I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do" ---Edward E. Hale

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything tha tcounts can be counted" ---Albert Einstein

"All the world's a stage, and every man and woman are players. They have their exits and entrances and all man plays many parts in this lifetime."

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you... There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too. --Frederick Buechner

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. --Susan Polis Schutz

"Without hope, there is no God, without God, there is no hope." ---Michael Chin

"Limited in his nature, infinate in his desires, man is a fallen God who remembers heaven..."