“I don’t think you can keep someone you truly love at arm’s length on purpose, they’ll always end up in your arms.” ~ Holly Nichole Miller

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” ~ Dean Koontz

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” ~ Henry Ford

“Don’t walk behind me – I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me – I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus

“Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.” ~ Lord Dewar

“Falling in love is so hard on the knees.” ~ Aerosmith

“If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” ~ Ben Hogan

“When love is not madness, it is not love.” ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn’t make sense.” ~ Gaby Dunn

“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” ~ Joseph Joubert

“It is really one moment of looking love dead in the eye that takes us everywhere in a flash.” ~ Swami Chetanananda

“What “love” is I don’t know if it’s not the response of our deepest natures to one another.” ~ William Carlos Williams

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do” ~ Unknown

“Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.” ~ John Ciardi

“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal … A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Read More »

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” ~ Gary Player

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” ~ Tim Ferriss

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” ~ Octavia Butler

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~ Dr. Robert Schullerscher

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ~ Victor Hugo

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” ~ Ray Bradbury

“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.” ~ Albert Einstein

“I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.” ~ Sylvester Stallone

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.” ~ Richard Bach

“as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him … as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. Read More »

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.” ~ Albert Einstein

“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably … What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. Read More »

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” ~ Albert Einstein