Mar 05, 2011 21:20
"All beautiful you are my darling; There is no flaw in you." - Song of Solomon 4:7
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death." - Robert Fulghum
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Dubois
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." - Sophia Loren
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart." - Helen Keller
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." - Alan Cohen
"Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments, and to live each is to succeed." - Corita Kent
"But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for." - Paulo Coelho
"You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes." - Amy Tan
"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest acception. The great majority [of people] love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him." - Goethe
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” - Buddha
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go." - Mary Oliver
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." - Robert Frost
"We accept the love we think we deserve." - Anonymous, PostSecret post card
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." - Anais Nin
"Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to." - Unknown