JANESSA'S QUOTE PAGE

Here are some quotes that I have collected from the net dealing with mostly love and friendship over the past few months..Enjoy! :)

Holding on makes you weak, letting go makes you strong...
Love does not exist, it is just an illusion of the mind...
Forgive me for letting you love me...
I can only see my reflection through your eyes, therefore all I see essentially are lies..
Better be careful what you say to me, cause it might turn around on you..you better be careful what you do to me cause somebody might do it to you..
An immature love says I love you because I need you, but a mature love says I need you because I love you..
Let your heart guide you, but listen closely because it whispers...
Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment love begins, but we always recognize the moment it ends?
Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like Hell...
Never think that 'i love you' will always repair your heart because sometimes it shatters it even more..
Remember, just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they've got..
Why is it that no matter how much pain it endures by holding on, the heart still refuses to let go?
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying good-bye so hard..
It is really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it is really sad when the best of friends become two strangers..
Would you rather tell a lie that draws a smile or the truth that draws a tear?
A good-bye is only painful if you know you will never say hello again..
The hardest thing in the world is having to spend every day so close to someone you know you can never really be close to..
Unconditional love is the most noble love..and the most powerful...
Love need not be understood, only accepted...
If you have love to give, give it now--for who knows what tomorrow may bring or if it will ever come..
Love is all that I need and more than I can stand..
The broken heart, all the tears, wondering if you could ever go on--someday, someone will come along and make up for it all...
Love is perfect, even when we are not..
The speech of someone in love bores everyone except the loved one..
If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough..
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through the good and the bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses...
The first duty of love is to listen..
It is only when we have experienced love that we truly realize what we would be missing if we lost it..
Love is constant and love does guarantee, people betray. Love can always be trusted, people cannot...
Anger builds nothing but can destroy everything...
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words..
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges..
What you think in the egotism of anger you will pay for in the humiliation of saner moments..
Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color..
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies..
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes...
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an inflattering truth..
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves..
Confusion is the beginning toward understanding...
Life is very, very short; smile more...
Love will make miraculous things happen...
People don't tend to remember the positive things you said, but they will always remember the negative things you let out...
Having a bad day does NOT mean one can pass it on to someone else..
The worst sin in life is wasting time...
There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it only when it is convenient. When you are commited to something, you accept no excuses--only results..
There are not many things in life more beautiful than true friendship, and not many things more uncommon..
Life without friendship is like the sky without the sun..
The only way to have a friend is to be one..
The path from inner turmoil begins with a friendly ear..
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss can never be repaired...
Sometimes people come into our lives and change it forever, and we never, ever stay the same...
All the things that "go without saying" or that are "understood" between two people in love can build up a mountain of miscommunication...
You need not search for something that is right in front of you..
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind...
If you judge someone, you have no time to love them..
Some people just pass through your life--others come in, leave footprints on your heart, and you are forever changed..
Love is a thing full of anxious fears..
Love is space and time measured by the heart...
The first time I saw you, I was afraid to talk to you. The first time I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. The first time I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I am afraid of losing you..
Until you find someone worth dying for you are not really living..
True love does not consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts..
Love is in my heart and in your eyes...
When you love someone, all your saved up wishes start coming true..
Nobody raises his reputation by lowering others...
We are too hasty to believe every evil report. Many an innocent person has been injured by a tale that was without foundation. It is a serious matter to do an injustice to a fellow man by a report that we spread. The first thing, the least thing that one can do before he passes on a story that has come to him, is to stop long enough to ask if it is true...
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people who are reckless with yours..
Treat others as you want them to treat you because what goes around comes around..
When you break your word, you break the one thing that cannot be mended..
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive..
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not..
There's a smile in my heart that I've waited my whole life for..
You can admire what you see, but you can only love what you trult know..
There is no reset button in real life..
Perfect is something that only exists in your imagination..
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are always thinking about yesterday..
You never lose by loving--you lose by holding back..
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future...
I love you not for what you are, but for what I am when I'm with you..
Love is acceptance. When you love someone you take them into your heart, and that is why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love--because we lose a part of ourselves..
Love is not when you can live with somebody, but when you can't live without them...
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leavem and impossible to forget..
You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person you can't live without..
When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure..
The best way to destroy an enemy is to change him into a friend..
True friends are like gems-precious and rare. Fake friends are like autumn leaves--found everywhere...
To let a fool kiss you is stupid, but to let a kiss fool you is worse..
Just to prove I was right that its harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two because if you do and then your still unhappy then you know that the problem is you..
True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have ever seen...
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those "it might have been"...
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever...
Love yourself, for if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to love you?
Love is like quicksand--the deeper you fall in, the harder it is to get out..
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end..
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of..
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes..no plans..
We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend..
What does not destroy us makes us strong..
Power does not corrupt, fear corrupts..perhaps the fear of a loss of power..
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunities..
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless...
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing..
Never deprive someone of hope--it may be all they have..
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously..
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects..
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On..
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong, and nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission..
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable..
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing..
In almost everyone's life there occurs a turning point. For some it's a victory that brings new confidence, for others its an unexpected defeat that makes them face themselves and the truth. It's not the event that redefines our lives so much as the way we handle it..
Hurt me once, your fault; hurt me twice, my fault..
If someone betrays you once, it's his fault; if he betrays you twice, its your fault..
Don't let anyone steal your dreams--Follow your heart, no matter what..
There are some times when silence has the loudest voice..
It's better to declare the truth and be rejected than to withhold it just to be accepted..
The man who lives in the past robs the present..
Once you have learned to love, you have learned to live..
We risked, we loved, we lost..and sooner or later we'll do it all over again..
Love not only gives...it also forgives..
Love creates an 'us' without destroying the 'me'..
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels..
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved...
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world..
Most lies suceed because noone goes through the work to figure out how to catch them..
Men were born to lie and women to believe them..
The cruelest lies are often told in silence..
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful..
Always remember other's may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself..
Not the power to remember but the very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence..
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget..
Some people make promises just for the pleasure of breaking them..
The worst prison is a closed heart..
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing..
Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow..
Looking back, I have this to regret--that too often when I loved, I did not say so..
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye..
Lust is when you love what you see. Love is when you lust for whats inside...
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget..
Often we have no time for our friends, but all the time in the world for our enemies..
Sometimes, you have to let go of the one you love to find out if there was ever something there to hold on to..
If love is only a word, why does it hurt so much when you find it isn't there?
We cannot mend a broken heart with anything but time...
Maybe it was wrong, but upon my life, I'll never regret loving him..
If, out of time, I could pick one moment and keep it shining, always new, of all the days that I have lived, I'd pick the moment I met you..
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept..
Please remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive, and survive, there are still some things that make us all the same-everybody needs somebody to love..
It is a rare and special thing to find a friend who will remain a friend forever...
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one...
The best way to keep friendships from breaking is not to drop them..
We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them we only see their virtues...
Dance like noone's watching and love like it will never hurt...
When we lose a friend, we die a little..
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one..
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us..
If we deny the 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...
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic..
The true measure of a woman is how she treats someone who can do her absolutely no good..
If only you knew she loved you, you could face the uncertainty of whether you love her..
Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable..
Giving someone all your love is never an assurance thaat they'll love you back. Don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts. But...if it doesn't, be content that it grew in yours..
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it..
Loving someone is torture until that someone loves you back...
You know you love someone when you want them to be happy, even when their happiness means not being with you..
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own..
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost..
You only fall in love once-the rest is merely practice to make sure your heart can take it..
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have..
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way..
I could do without many things with no hardships--you are not one of them..
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart you can't utter...
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live..
I understand that with love comes pain, so why do I have to love so much?
The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay; love isn't love until you give it away...
Give me a whisper, give me a sigh, give me a kiss before you tell me goodbye; please remember that I never lied...and please remember how I felt inside..
There are things you'd love to hear that you would never hear from the person whom you would like to hear them from, but don't be so deaf as not to hear it from the one who says it from his heart..
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone-but it takes a lifetime to forget someone..
My wish is not to mean everything to everyone, but to mean something to someone..
Why do I love him? Because he is a thief, the first day I met him he stole my heart. Why, then, do I hate myself? Because I left my heart vulnerable when the past has told me time and time again not to...
True friendship continues to grow over the longest distance--same goes for true love..
The love that we cannot have lasts the longest, hurts the deepest, and feels the strongest..
Having sex with someone you do not love means nothing compared to kissing the cheek of the one you do love...
No man is worth your tears and the one that is won't make you cry..
It was never love that broke her heart, it was losing that love that tore her apart..
The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have..
Love ain't worth making when it makes you the fool...
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything...
We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people...
I saw him, I liked him. I liked him, I loved him. I loved him, I let him. I let him, I lost him...
Your children need your presence more than your presents...

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