"May the sun bring you new energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries,
May the breeze blow new strength into your being,
May you walk gently through the world and kn ow it's beauty all the days of your life."
-- Apache Blessing

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night." - Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order." Toni Morrison, Beloved

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering." - Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

"Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'" - Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.


Pablo Neruda

"There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves."    Laura Moncur

"There are risks and costs to a program of action.  But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."  JFK

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."  Anais Nin

"Love isn't a decision.  It's a feeling.  If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical."  Chef - South Park

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less.  But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."  Rabbi Julius Gordon

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.  To just give.  That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt." Madonna

"When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade.  Each wins all."  Lois McMaster Bujold

"Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself."  Jean Anouilh

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be...It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for."  Erica Jong

"One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love."  Elizabeth Aston

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contract of two chemical substances:  if there is any reaction, both are transformed."  Carl Jung

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command." Alan Watts

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you never can tell.” Joan Crwford

“I don’t want to be understandable, I want to be felt.” Martha Graham

“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.” Michele de Montaigne

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” R. Frost

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. - Aldous Huxley

Do not marry a person that you know that you can live with; only marry someone that you cannot live without.

“Create a signal only your lover knows so you can show him you love him across a crowded room.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus a day so I never have to live without you.”

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowed in prayer.” Ghandi

“Expecting something for nothing is the most powerful form of hope” Arnold Glasow

“You don’t know about real loss. Cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.” Good Will Hunting

“When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Keller

“We are never so defenseless as when we love.”

“When spiders’ webs unite, they can tie up a lion.” Ethopian Proverb

there is only the first wound and other traumas that follow are a reflection.

One day you are going to wake up and realize how much you care for her and when that day comes she'll be waking up next to the guy that already knew.

What breaks your heart? Has your heart been broken? Tell me...when has your heart been broken?

“The trouble with your face is that it’s ruining me for other faces. It’s making me rethink every face I’ve ever liked” Love Walked In

“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”

“The self is not something that one finds, it is something that one creates.” Thomas Szasz

“That’s what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.” Richard Bach

“A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks…Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.” Richard Bach

“Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.” Jackson Brown

“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Jean Giraudoux

“But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy…you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feel like God put an angel on Earth just for you; could rescue you from the depths of Hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel. To have that love for her be there forever. Through anything.” Good Will Hunting

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” B. Williams

“Perspective is everything. To a worm, digging in the hard ground is more relaxing than going fishing.”

“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” Simone De Beauvoir

“Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying; they just forgot to mention she was kind.” J. Ruth Gendler

“Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.” Isabelle Holland

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” Thoreau

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” M. Twain

“A man should kiss his wife’s navel every day.” Nell Kimball

“Be the first to fight for a just cause.”

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like.” Mark Twain

“…It is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us..” Dickens

“I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.” William Lloyd Garrison

“So much of me is you I don’t know just who I am…I gave you my soul. I gave you control of me. Can’t you just believe ‘you are my everything?’” Stabbing Westwad

“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.” R.W. Sockman

“I will not suffer this loss of you again and again and again. I refuse to continue to live in this perpetual nightmare, I decide it ends right here.” Stabbing Westwad

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” Susan Ertz

“When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.” Clifton Fadiman

“Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look, when hearts are of each other sure.” John Keble

“Before you were conceived, I wanted you/Before you were born, I loved you/Before you were here an hour, I would die for you/This is the miracle of love.” Maureen Hawkins

“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” Michael Landon

“I can resist everything except temptation.” Oscar Wilde

“Waste not fresh tears over old grief.” Euripides

“It is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” Shakespeare

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” Walt Whitman

“Problems are opportunities in work clothes.” Henry Kaiser

There would come time when the ache of his loss was not her unremitting companion.

“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.” James Stephen

“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity: a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”

“God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.” J. Barrie

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” Elbert Hubbard

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Norman MacEwan

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know.” Mistinguett

“What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.” Coach Bear Bryant

“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.” Bob Hope

“Sometimes when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” Lamartine

“And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.” Opal Whiteley

“I never met a man I didn’t like.” Will Rogers

“It’s good to have some friends both in Heaven and in Hell.” George Herbert

“If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows--it becomes a month, a year, a century, it becomes too late.” Jean Giraudoux

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” Mark Twain

“Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.” J.D. Salinger

“A friend is a present you give yourself.” R.L.S.

“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.” Colette

“I want everyone else I meet in the whole world to like me, except the people I’ve already met, handled, found inconsequential and forgot about.” Joseph Heller

“Platonic love is love from the neck up.” Thyra Winslow

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

She had this laugh - it bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.

Wars come and go but my soldiers stay eternal - Tupac

"The fate of the free world is in the hands of a bunch of hustlers and thieves."
--"Why should tonight be any different?"

from the movie "XXX"

To love another person is to see the face of God.

“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.” John Updike

“We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” M.L.K. Jr.

“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.” Colin Powell

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” Muhammad Ali