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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
-Richard Bach

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
-Erich Fromm

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
-John W. Gardner


Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
-Peter Medawar

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
-Leo Buscaglia

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
-Thomas A. Edison

Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.
-Brian Celio


Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
-Eugene Kennedy

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.
-Henri Nouwen

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
-James A. Baldwin

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
-W. Somerset Maugham

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
-Lily Tomlin

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
-C. S. Lewis


It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
-Henry David Thoreau

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
-Orison Swett Marden

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
-Benjamin Britten


Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley

Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
-Charles Caleb Colton

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
-James M. Barrie

Wisdom begins in wonder.
-Socrates

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
-Doug Larson