"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire."
-- La Rochefoucauld
"Trust"
"The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity."
-- Brian Tracy
"Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down."
-- Kobi Yamada
"Friendship"
"Do not be dismayed at good-byes. A good-bye is necessary before meeting again, and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends."
-- Richard Bach
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
-- G. Randolf
"A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it
back to you when you've forgotten the words."
-- Author Unknown
"Friends are the part of our family we get to choose."
-- Author Unknown
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
-- Woodrow Wilson
"Don't walk behind me I will not lead, don't walk in front of me I will not follow, just walk beside me and be my friend."
-- Author Unknown
"Friendship is the greatest treasured gift anyone can give you. So if you have happened to find true friendship, do not abuse it, treasure it. For from friendship comes greater things..."
-- Jolene Frunchak
"Love"
"You've got to dance like no one's watching and love like it's never going to hurt."
-- Anne Frank
"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
-- Rabbi Julins Gordon
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it."
--Swedish Proverb
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
-- Franklin P. Adams
"When you love someone draw a circle around their name instead of a heart 'cause hearts can be broken but circles never end."
-- Author Unknown
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an
imperfect person perfectly."
-- Sam Keen
"Artists"
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
-- Pablo Picasso
"The earth has music for those who listen."
-- William Shakespeare
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Self Perspective"
"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
-- Author Unknown
"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream."
-- Harry Kemp
"Many a man has finally succeeded - Only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have know any great victory."
-- Orison Sweet Marden
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."
-- Tallulah Bankhead
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
-- Helen Keller
"The soul would have no rainbow, had the eye no tears."
-- Author Unknown
"Live your todays so that you can live with yourself tomorrow."
-- Author Unknown
This page was created on November 14, 2000 and last updated on June 5, 2001.
