June 4th,1998

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence -- Samuel Johnson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage -- Anais Nin
If I try to be like him, who will be like me? -- Yiddish Proverb
Uncertainty and expectations are the joys of life. -- William Congreve
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. -- Ingrid Bergman
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. -- Leon J. Suenens
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. -- Langston Hughes
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail -- Unknown
It's never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot
It is not length of life, but depth of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity. -- Barbara G. Walker
We realized there's something wrong here, if everybody was upset by the fact that two people were naked. -- John Lennon
There is never anything to feel sorry about with love. Never. –- Robert Heinlein
English... an emotive lingo beautifully adapted to concealing fallacies. –- Robert Heinlein
The heart wants what it wants.... There's no logic to those things. -- Woody Allen
Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt thy love.
-- William Shakespeare
I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. -- Chico Marx
I don't want to live- I want to love first, and live incidentally -- Zelda Fitzgerald
A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun – and neither can stop the march of events. -– Robert Heinlein
Let us live life as it is, and not be ungrateful. -- George Sand
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts. -- George Sand
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. –- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake... -- Albert Einstein
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me. -- Albert Einstein
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow. -- Marian Anderson
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. -- Shakespeare
Life is here to Enjoy! -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire. -- Duchess Prazlin
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. -- Dan Millman
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. -- Dale Carnegie
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. -- Tom Bodett
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. -- Joseph Addison
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. -- Dr. Seuss
It's the heart, afraid of breaking that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance
It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live
-- Bette Midler
I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do. -- Midori Ito
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. -- George Santayana
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. -- Georges Bataille
And never think about the past. No regrets, ever. -– Robert Heinlein
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -– Robert Heinlein
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Desires are the pulses of the soul -- Manton
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. -- James Russell Lowell
Know what you want. Become your real self. -- David Harold Fink
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air -- Robert Collier
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. -- Robert Collier
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. -- Christian Nevell Bovee
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. -- Proverbs 13:19
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. -- Sir James M. Barrie
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

May 16th,1998

We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools. – Martin Luther King
When we lose our power to laugh, we lose our power to think straight. -- Victoria R.I.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. -– Mark Twain
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things. -- A. A. Milne
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. -- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. -- Michael Landon
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. -- Michael Landon
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. -- Dean William R. Inge
You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought. -- Marjorie Holmes
The deed is everything, the glory is naught. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You learn to love by loving. -- St. Francis De Sales
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. -- Quintus Ennius
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. -- Benjamin Disraeli
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state. -- Ching Ning Chu
Leap, and the net will appear. -- Julie Cameron
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. -- Annie Besant
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. -- Maya Angelou
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. -- Charles Kuralt
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. -- Benjamin Jowett
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
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. -- Morarji Desai
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. -- Thomas Fuller
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. -- Marcus Aurelius
Mistakes are a fact of life...It is the response to the error that counts -- Nikki Giovani
Words have power. Printed words, indeed, can arouse the most potent emotions. They can excite joy, passion, peace, and rage within their readers. -- Scott Cunningham
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. -- Douglas Everett
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. -- Andrew Carnegie
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. -- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Most people would rather give than get affection. -- Aristotle
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
-- Alexander Pope
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire. -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -– Robert Heinlein
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. -– Robert Heinlein
The more you love, the more you can love---and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. -– Robert Heinlein
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. -– Robert Heinlein
Democracy is based upon the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. -– Robert Heinlein
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. -– Robert Heinlein
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing---with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place. – Robert Heinlein
You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires. -- Marcia Wieder
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. -- Molly Ivins
Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? -- Maurice Mascaranhas
To meet, to know, to love- and then to part, is the sad tale of many a human heart. -- Unknown
Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it. -- Frank C. Bucaro
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. -- Doris Lessing

May 3rd,1998

Someone's got to raise some hell, it might as well be me. – Jimmy Buffet
Some people never find it
Some only pretend, but me
I just want to live happily ever after
Every now and then
--Jimmy Buffet
Take it from me 'cause I've found
If you leave it, then somebody else is bound
To find that treasure
That moment of pleasure
When yours, it could have been
--Jimmy Buffet
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent.
-- Lord Byron
"We've got to dance and be in love" --Lenny Kravitz
Perfection is not easibly obtained –- Michael Webb
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it. - Lao-Tzu
It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life. -- Anthony Robbins
Forget about style; worry about results. -- Bobby Orr
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. -- Malcolm X
I have, as you may have figured out by now, an ego. – Geoffrey Fieger
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. -- Henry David Thoreau
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. -- Vittorio De Sica
I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful. -- Marilyn Monroe
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. -- Jerry Gellis
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. -- Elbert Hubbard
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. -- Andrew Jackson
In memory everything seems to happen to music. -- Tennessee Williams
What we learn with pleasure we never forget. -- Alfred Mercier
Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water. -- Eugene Ionesco
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny -- Emma Goldman
Dare to err and to dream. -- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. -- William Shakespeare

April 11th,1998

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. -- Sophia Loren
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. -- Patrick Henry
Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. -- Doug King
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. -- George S. Patton
Inside the heart of every person lies a golden ember of unbridled passion -- unknown
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. -- Booker T. Washington
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. -- The Koran
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. -- Brian Tracy
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. -- George S. Clason
Passion is the trigger of success. -- Unknown
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. -- Frederico Fellini
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. -- John Updike
I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return. -- Unknown
Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible. -- Stan Mooneyham
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. -- Og Mandino
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies. -- William Shakespeare
Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth. -- William Purkey
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living. -- Jean De La Fontaine
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? -- Henry James
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons. -- George T. Hewitt
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. -- Thomas Carlyle
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. -- Nadia Boulanger
You have to do what you love to do… Life is not a dress rehearsal. -- Lucinda Basset
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." -- Maya Angelou
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop
I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you. -- Byron Caldwell Smith
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. --Christian Nevell Bovee
A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. -- Jane Heard
Only the heart knows how to find what is precious. -- Dostoyevsky
Out of clutter, find simplicity. -- A. Einstein

March 4th,1998

An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James
Voting in this country is like swapping deck-chairs on the Titanic. -- Unknown
What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today. - Edgar Allan Poe
Character is much easier kept than recovered. -- Thomas Paine
I went to the woods
Because I wanted to live deliberatley
I wanted to live deep
And suck out all the marrow of life
To put to rap all that was not life
And not when I had come to die
Discover that I have not lived
- Unknown
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live. - Albert Einstein
Don't ask me where I'm going,
Just listen when I'm gone
And far away you'll hear me singing softly to the dawn
- Pippin
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for awhile, leave footprints in our hearts, and we're never the same. -- Unknown
Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the banquet. -- Unknown
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to lead a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau
Chance favours the prepared mind. -- Unknown
Oh! To struggle against great odds! To meet challenges undaunted! -- Unknown
The attitude within is more important than the circumstances without. -- Unknown
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." -- Plutarch
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination." -- Edmund Burke
"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." -- Oscar Wilde
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." -- Japanese Proverb
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." -- Robert Anthony
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." -- Scottish Proverb
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." -- Joan Borysenko
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." -- Victor Hugo
"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
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." -- Goethe

February 15th,1998

What makes men chase women they have no intention of marrying? The same urge that makes dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving. -- Unknown
He who is not impatient is not in love. -- Italian Proverb
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. -- Erica Jong
Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite. -- George Eliot
If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you. -- Joseph Campbell
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. -- Christian Nevell Bovee
Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. -- John Boorman
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Curiosity is a lust of the mind. -- Thomas Hobbes
I have often regretted my silence, never my speech! -- Monique Arnold
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It will come soon enough. -- Albert Einstein
Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood. -- Unknown
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelly

January 31st,1998

Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself. -- Unknown
Too much of a good thing is wonderful. -- Mae West
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. -- Midori Koto
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. -- Albert Einstein
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. -- Isaac Asimov: Foundation
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you. -- Louis Armstrong
If there is anything better than being loved, it's loving. -- Unknown
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. -- Robert Southey
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire. -- La Rochefoucauld
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -- Franklin P. Jones
All mankind loves a lover. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. -- Anthony J. D'Angelo: The College Blue Book
"Love: a blurring of the distinction between selfish and selfless." -- Ofer Inber
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious -- B.C. Forbes
And the day came when to remain tight in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to blossom --Annais Nin
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." -- Oscar Wilde
"People who are sensible about love are incapable of it." - Douglas Yates

January 24th,1998

"Of all the days, the day on which one has not laughed is surely the most wasted" - Chamfort
"Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?" --Lucy Westenra, _Dracula_ by Bram Stoker
When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship. Rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which, one compels a demon to move the ship. - Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no such things as strangers, only friends that we have not yet met. -Anonymous
Someday My friend:
We will know Love -
Of its existence.
In time
Existing within it:
becoming part of it.
You and I.
-Jonivan
And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead. - Philip Robison
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love. - F. Sagan
What makes life worth living?
To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad. - S. Searamouche
Love without reason lasts the longest. - unknown
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. - The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus
Making love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The thirstier I become,
Until nothing can slake my thirst
But to drink the entire sea.
- Marichiko
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain
If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way. - Mark Twain
Do not work too hard -- it's bad for the soul. - a e b
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. - Sam Brown, Washington Post
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. - Freud
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
It Goes On. - Robert Frost
And where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts,
The chain may lengthen, but it never parts.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Tis better to argue a point and not settle it, than to settle a point and not argue it. - J. Joubert
Those who do not read..are no better off than those who can't. - Old Chinese Proverb
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams... - John Barrymore
Man is the only creature who has the ability to blush, or the need. - Mark Twain
And think not, you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course - Kahlil Gibran
Attitude is the mind's paintbrush, it can color any situation. - Unknown
Love unconditionally and freely. Only then will your heart learn what love is. -- Unknown
History shows, that he who loves to fight, is killed by the sword, but he who doesn't fight is laying by his side. - Hakuin
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. - Benjamin Disraeli
All the good things in life are immoral, illegal or heavily taxed. - Oscar Wilde
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. - Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"There is one pain I often feel, which you'll never know. It's caused by absence of you." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" - Stephen Levine
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." - Groucho Marx
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde
"I can't afford to be wasting my time making money." -- Natalie Kees
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. (C.S. Lewis)
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. (Hugh Downs)
Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. (Albert Camus)
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Unknown
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. (James Dean)
If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. - Sheryl Crow
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. (Hasidic saying)
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing! (Stacey Brown)
Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. (John Lennon)
My worst day of vacation has always been better than my best day at work - Unknown
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. Sit on a red-hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. That's relativity. (A. Einstein)
The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to get. - Unknown
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. - Unknown
When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently. - Unknown
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. (William Arthur Ward)
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. (Japanese Proverb.)
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. - Unknown
If you don't love, you can't live; if you don't live, you can't love. (Jason Benson)
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. (Tallulah Bankhead)
Passion: there are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those. - Unknown
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West
And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like Arabs,
And silently steal away.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look for me by moonlight;
Watch for me by moonlight;
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!
-Alfred Noyes "The Highwayman"
"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love." - William Somerset Maugham
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. - János Arany
You need someone to love while you're looking for someone to love. - Shelagh Delaney
There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love --the first fluttering of its silken wings. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheel
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way.
- Joni Mitchell "Both Sides Now"
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. - Mark A. Overby
Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other. - Oscar Wilde
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
For 'twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. 'Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Professor at the Breakfast-Table"
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun. - Billy Joel "Only the Good Die Young"
It's the heart afraid of dying, that never learns to dance;
It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance;
It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give;
And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live.
- Bette Midler "The Rose"
Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper, "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of me
-Gus Kahn "Dream A Little Dream of Me"
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted. - Mark Twain
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. - Mark Twain
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances. - Mark Twain
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. - Mark Twain
There is Moral Sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it. - Mark Twain
Women are amazing creatures--sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are. - Robert Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. - Robert Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
If you can't change your mind, are you sure you still have one? - Robert Heinlein
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -- Margaret Lee Runbeck
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." -D.Mortman
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