He has achieved success who has
lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley
Trouble is part of your life
-- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance
to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last
test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I love deadlines. I like the
whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
In Italy for thirty years under
the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they
had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and
what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles, The Third Man, 1949
A scholar who cherishes the love
of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tze
If you begin the day with love
in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only
benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family
and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that
day.
Unknown
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Love all, trust a few, do wrong
to none.
Shakespeare
What most people need to learn
in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and
loving things.
Unknown
Immature love says, "I love
you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because
I love you."
Erich Fromm
When our eyes see our hands doing
the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the
doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in
sight.
Michael Bridge
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
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
The harder the conflict, the
more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;
it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that
can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave
by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose
heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his
principles unto death.
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
