Mar 03, 2008 18:22
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon
A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ~Ani Difranco
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~David Byrne
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ~Gwyneth Paltrow
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ~Colette
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. ~Harry Crews