Here is a small list of quotes I have collected. More coming soon. :)
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers
Either you run the day or the day runs you. - Jim Rohn
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, 'Maud Muller'
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese Proverb
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. - Arthur Koestler
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. - William M. Thackeray
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson
One does evil enough when one does nothing good. - German Proverb
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."-Unknown
"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever."-unknown
"Silence is the true friend that never betrays." -Confucious
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don't walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend."- unknown (to me)
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." -- Unknown
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."--unknown
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." -James Dean
"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry."-- unknown
"If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room."
-unknown
"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." -Booker T. Washington
"Your silence will not protect you!" -Kemper
"He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for." -Moroccan Proverb
"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!" -Anonymous
"Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free." -Unknown
"Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there." -- Otomo No Yakamochi
"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones." -- The Doctor, Timewyrm: Genesys, by John Peel
"Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only silence." -- Pam Brown
"You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour." -- Chinese Proverb
"Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families." -- Unknown
"A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway." -- Christi Mary Warner
"You can never want too much love. You can only want too much love from a person who is not willing to love you enough."-- Robin Lynn
"If you chase a butterfly it will fly away.However,if you ignore it, the butterfly will land on your shoulder. The same can be said for love." -Unknown
"The best things happen when you least expect them to. The trick it to always expect them to." -- Robin Lynn
"Things don't always happen overnight. Give them time. Patience is a virtue greatly rewarded."--Robin Lynn
"True Friendship is the perfect love. It cannot be broken by quarrels or time. It can withstand even the toughest of tests. It stands up to the strongest winds. It's the fierce resolve in the human heart. Friendship is forever." -- Me after being inspired by my friend, David.
"To love and win is the best thing in the world, to love and lose the second best. To experience love fully, even for just a moment is the greatest feeling in the world. Even if it's for a brief moment, because it's that moment we humans strive for, it's our nature.That moment of completion, no matter how short. It's what we live and die for."-- Robin Lynn
