I have met many wonderful friends since I first came online, and it is to those friends I dedicate this page. You will find quotes, some poems, and occasionally a short story or two that I have written or the sources will be identified. I cannot imagine my life without those who I have met these last few months, for they have made me see myself in a light that I could not imagine. So to them I give you the following, read and enjoy, they know which ones are for them and I only hope they can come here and smile.
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have been my friend, that in itself is a tremendous thing. After all, what's a life anyway. We're born, we live, we die. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows, anyone's life can stand a little of that."
E.B.White
Charlotte's Web
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." Henry David Thoreau
"Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of Heaven, unasked and unsought."
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
"When we walk to the end of all the light we have, and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen: that we will land on something solid, or we will learn how to fly."
-unknown
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart"
-Helen Keller
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
"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 he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advise, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle 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
"Dont be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
-Richard Bach
"Stars over snow,
And in the west a planet
Swinging below a star --
Look for a lovely thing and you will find it,
It is not far --
It never will be far.-- "Night," by Sara Teasdale
" I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude the road has vanished..And how else could we discover the stars?
-unknown
"One hundred years from now, it won't matter what car I drove, what kind
of house I lived in, how much I had in my bank account, nor what my
clothes looked like, but the world may be a little better because I was
important in the life of a child." – Unknown
"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the
rainbow won't wait while you do the work."Unknown
"In all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness barable, is eachother"
-Contact (the movie)
"A friend is a present you give yourself."-- Robert Louis Stevenson
"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life
which are the real ones after all."
Laura Ingalls Wilder
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A part of you has grown in me. And so you see,
it's you and me together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart."
--unknown
"This day and your life ... are God's gift to you -- so give thanks and
be joyful always!"
- Jim Beggs
"Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its binding love. We stand close to each other, hand in hand, showing each other we understand. Some friends may come and go, but you are the truest friend I know"
-Elsa Maxwell
I have you
A lover and a friend
You are everything I need
You are the sun, the air I breathe.
Without you
Life wouldn't be the same
Please never go away
And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you
-Basia"Reward”
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride
worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me,
I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day,
as you have meant old friend of mine,
to me along the way.
--Edgar A. Guest
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will
always find me yours."
--Ludwig van Beethoven
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then
burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should
all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
--Albert Schweitzer
"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 is all over."
-Olivia Butler
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
--unknown
"It has been said that we need
just three things in life:
Something to do,
Something to look forward to
And someone to love." -- Unknown
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands
will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
-Unknown
"What orbit of the planets has put you and me in this place, at
this moment? Where time takes a breath, and we dance on the edge
of our dreams?"
--unknown
"Memory: a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what
small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things."
-Pierce Harris
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without
leaving some mark on it forever."
Francois Muriac
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can
look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they may lead.
Louisa May Alcott
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-- Walt Disney
First you need only look:
Notice and honor the radiance of
Everything about you...
Play in this universe. Tend
All these shining things around you:
The smallest plant, the creatures and
objects in your care.
Be gentle and nurture. Listen...
--Anne Hillman
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
--Henry Miller
"If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living- -I have made my mark"
-Thomas L Odem, Jr
"Life is change...Growth is optional....Choose wisely..."
Karen Kaiser Clark
"To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop
fighting."
--e. e. cummings
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond
your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon
you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never
by those who seek it for themselves." - F. Emerson Andrews
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
Robert Southey
"If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and
truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring
them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny
draws across your path that day."
--Unknown
"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom." --Shirley Conran
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially
scared me to death."
Betty Bender
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing
you will make one."
---Elbert Hubbard
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every
dream precedes the goal.
-- Pamela Starr
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may
not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend. -- Albert Camus
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't
even remember leaving open.
-- Rose Lane
"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of
travelling."
--M. L. Runbeck
"Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together"
--Stephen Covey
"Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even
though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop
character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we
endure help us in our marching onward." - Henry Ford
When twilight drops her curtain down
And pins it with a star
Remember that you have a friend
Though she may wander far.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
To see a world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palms of your hand
and eternity in an hour
-----William Blake
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. --Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. --Ursula K. LeGuin
"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."
Woodrow Wilson
I could do without many things with no hardship--you are not one of them."--Ashleigh Brilliant
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take
the least care of all to acquire.
-- Franois de La Rochefoucauld
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
--Sir Hugh Walpoe
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
--Alexander Smith
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we
fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
--Unknown
"What greater thing is there for two human souls
than to feel that they are joined together to
strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to
each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in
all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent
unspoken memories?"
--George Elliot
"...Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, you probably could never get it back together again."
--Anonymous
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in
serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up
beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the
paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss
you, do miss you and think of you very often."
--Jeanette Winterson
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
--Richard Bach, Illusions (1977)
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
--Lillian Dickson
"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret
weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a
crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in
the air -- explode softly -- and send thousands, millions, of
little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth -- boxes
of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either -- not little
boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built
right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and
lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile
and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world
with imagination."
--Robert Fulghum
If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it,
rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
--Rachel Carson
"Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
--Richard Bach
Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine,a bit of unscheduled pleasure.
--Richard Iannelli
"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend."
--William Rotsler
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
-Unknown
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable
--David Tyson Gentry
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same."
-Unknown
"Laughter is the spark of the soul"
--Anonymous
Love doesn't just sit there,like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries.
-- A. A. Milne
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
-- C. D. Jackson
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand.
--Unknown
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
--Edward de Bono
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.
--Dr. Seuss
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
~Luciano de Crescenzo
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a
right.
-- Anonymous
"To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world." ---Unknown
Live all you can; it is a mistake not to.. It doesn't matter so much what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?---Henry James
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is
not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
" Dance like no one is looking,
and love like you'll never get hurt."
--unknown
IRISH BLESSING
May Love & Laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and Faithful friends be yours
where ever you may roam.
May Peace and plenty Bless your world
with Joy that long endures.
May all lifes passing seasons
Bring the best to you and yours.
"Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be." ---Karen Ravn
"Initiative is key. Anybody who wants to be somebody is going to work as hard as they can to fulfill that dream." ---Shawn "Puffy" Combs
