“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi

“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

“Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.” ~ Virginia Woolf

“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

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” ~ Thomas Merton

“Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall … Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again. Read More »

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” ~ William James

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” ~ Karen Lamb

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

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” ~ Carl Bard

“Love is a friendship set to music.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…” ~ E.E. Cummings

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~ Alice Walker

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” ~ David Tyson Gentry

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ~ Tom Robbins

“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” ~ Ben Hecht

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ T.S. Eliot

“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness-“ ~ Dalai Lama

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” ~ Pablo Picasso

“Love is my religion – I could die for it.” ~ John Keats

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

“…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.” ~ Miguel de Unamuno

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” ~ Muhammad Ali

“Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.” ~ Honore De Balzac

“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” ~ Joe Namath

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” ~ Albert Schweitzer