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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Character

ristotle:
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt:
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Aesop:
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

John Baptiste Moliére:
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Sir Edmund Hillary:
It is not the mountains that we conquer, but ourselves.

Horace:
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Cicero: Quotes:
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

Norman Vincent Peale:
It's always too soon to quit.

George Horace Lorimer:
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Anne Frank:
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Confidence

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Epictetus: Confidence Quotations
Whoever does not regard what he has as most amply wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Robert Frost: Confidence Quotations
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Brian G. Jett: Confidence Quotations
You can determine how confident people are by listening to what they don't say about themselves.

Zig Ziglar: Confidence Quotations
You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Michael Jordan: Confidence Quotations
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Rosalynn Carter: Confidence Quotations
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Joe Paterno: Confidence Quotations
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

William Dean Howells: Confidence Quotations
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Confidence Quotations
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Chris Evert: Confidence Quotations
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

power

Niccolo Machiavelli:
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

Frederick Bailes:
Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.

Tao Te Ching:
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Seneca:
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Abraham Lincoln:
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire:
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

Nido Qubein:
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.

William Shakespeare:
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

The above list of quotations is page 1 of a collection of motivational and inspirational quotes on Power.

age

R. Palmer: Age Quotes
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Gloria Pitzer: Age Quotes
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Rabindranath Tagore: Age Quotes
Age considers; youth ventures.

George William Curtis: Age Quotes
Age is a matter of feeling...not of years.

Jean Paul Richter: Age Quotes
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Unknown: Age Quotes
Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.

George Bernard Shaw: Age Quotes
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Henry David Thoreau: Age Quotes
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Bernard M. Baruch: Age Quotes
To me old age is 15 years older than I am.

George Bernard Shaw: Age Quotes
We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing!

John W. Turk: Age Quotes
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.

William Dean Howells: Age Quotes
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Age Quotes
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Value

Albert Einstein: Quotes: Value
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

M. Scott Peck: Quotes: Value
Until you value yourself you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Thomas Paine: Quotes: Value
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything value.

Jeanette Winterson: Quotes: Value
What you risk reveals what you value.

Jim Rohn: Quotes: Value
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

PHILOSOPHI

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. ~Albert Einstein


Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit. ~Author Unknown


Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. ~Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives


When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary


We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross,


The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ~Bertrand Russell


Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. ~Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651


Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory. ~Dewey Selmon


The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals. ~Martin H. Fischer


God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. ~Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889


Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ~Alfred North Whitehead


If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera. ~John Rich


All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams


Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. ~George Berkeley


To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. ~Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, "Book X: Pleasure and Happiness," translated by W.D. Ross


Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. ~Robert Zend


Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ~Immanuel Kant


Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. ~Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950


Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. ~Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes et penseés


Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. ~Bertrand Russell


To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. ~Bertrand Russell


Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John Keats


If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst. ~Shelley Berman


What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. ~Epictetus, Discourses


Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome. ~Esa Saarinen


To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670


We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Philosophy will clip an angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine -
Unweave a rainbow.
~John Keats, "Lamia," 1819


Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. ~Author Unknown


I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. ~Woody Allen


I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits. ~Jean Jacques Rousseau


The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck." ~Author Unknown


Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. ~Zen Saying


Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678


Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary

nature

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein


I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. ~Alan Hovhaness


Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ~Thornton Wilder


And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~William Shakespeare


The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
The brooks for the fishers of song;
To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
The streams and the woods belong.
~Sam Walter Foss


A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds! ~Dave Beard


My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter? ~Kotomichi


The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
~Isaac Watts


Human nature is just about the only nature some people experience. ~Abigail Charleson


Nature is my medicine. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe


Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson


Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book II, chapter 9


I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. ~Abraham Cowley


How many stanzas in the springtime breeze?
How plenty the raindrops? As He doth please.
There is no meter and there is no rhyme,
Yet God's poems always read in perfect time.
~Astrid Alauda, "Poems on Nature"


You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them. ~Russell Chatham, Silent Seasons, 1978


The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation... such is the nature of art. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. ~Robb Sagendorph


What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet,
Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
~Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid


Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape. ~Jareb Teague


That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980


All I want is to stand in a field
and to smell green,
to taste air,
to feel the earth want me,
Without all this concrete
hating me.
~Phillip Pulfrey, from Love, Abstraction and other Speculations, www.originals.net


Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. ~Alfred Billings Street


There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. ~Alice Meynell


Watching clouds roll by
on a sunny day
Who needs church?
Nature is divine.
~Carrie Latet


Art gallery? Who needs it? Look up at the swirling silver-lined clouds in the magnificent blue sky or at the silently blazing stars at midnight. How could indoor art be any more masterfully created than God's museum of nature? ~Grey Livingston


Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. ~Alan C. Kay


Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ~Michel de Montaigne


A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. ~Michael Pollan, Second Nature, 1991


Nature will not be admired by proxy. ~Winston Churchill


I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. ~W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919


I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. ~Emily Dickinson


I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~John Burroughs


Any man that walks the mead
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find
A meaning suited to his mind.
~Alfred Tennyson


What a type of happy family is the family of the sun! with what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another! ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau


Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ~George Washington Carver


Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely. Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
~Rupert Brooke


How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~e.e. cummings


I walked barefoot - the only way to walk on a muddy road. ~Laurie Gough, "Light on a Moonless Night"


A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun. ~Llewelyn Powys, The Pathetic Fallacy


If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ~Eleonora Duse


Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. ~John Muir


In the sky
an infinitude of hope,
a canvas of glory
all possibilities mine.
~Neroli Lambent


Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ~Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620


Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. ~Napoleon Hill


In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. ~John Fowles


I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ~Bertrand Russell


Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man. ~George Wherry, Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot, 1896


Some people say a man's best friend is the dog. Mine is Nature. ~Ward Elliot Hour


Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. ~Henry David Thoreau, journal, 5 January 1856


The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ~William Channing


Drinking nature is an unquenchable thirst. ~Berri Clove


Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. ~Gwyn Thomas


If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. ~Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


A wee child toddling in a wonder world.... I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. ~Zitkala-Sa


One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
~William Wordsworth, "The Tables Turned," 1798


The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography. The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian. ~Pepper Giardino


You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~St. Bernard


And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
~William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 1599


Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ~John Burroughs


Nature is the art of God. ~Thomas Browne,


The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. ~Dogen


Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Nature never goes out of style. ~ISUDAN GADHVI


Nature is a writer's best friend. ~Agavé Powers


There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. ~Thomas Jefferson


Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. ~Steven Weinberg


To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. ~John Burroughs

Friday, March 5, 2010

दिवसों judai

દિવસો જુદાઈના જાય છે, એ જશે જરૂર મિલન સુધી:
મને હાથ ઝાલીને લઈ જશે, હવે શત્રુઓ જ સ્વજન સુધી.

ન ધરા સુધી,ન ગગન સુધી,નહી ઉન્નતિ,ન પતન સુધી,
અહીં આપણે તો જવુ હતું, ફકત એકમેકના મન સુધી.

હજી પાથરી ન શકયું સુમન પરિમલ જગતના ચમન સુધી,
ન ધરાની હોય જો સંમતિ, મને લૈ જશો ન ગગન સુધી.

છે અજબ પ્રકારની જીદંગી, કહો એને પ્યારની જીદંગી ;
ન રહી શકાય જીવ્યા વિના, ન ટકી શકાય જીવન સુધી.

તમે રાંકનાં છો રતન સમાં, ન મળો હે અશ્રુઓ ધૂળમાં,
જો અરજ કબૂલ હો આટલી તો હદયથી જાઓ નયન સુધી.

તમે રાજરાણીનાં ચીર સમ, અમે રંક નારની ચૂંદડી !
તમે બે ઘડી રહો અંગ પર, અમે સાથ દઈએ કફન સુધી.

જો હદયની આગ વધી ‘ગની’, તો ખુદ ઈશ્વરે જ કૃપા કરી;
કોઈ શ્વાસ બંધ કરી ગયું, કે પવન ન જાય અગન સુધી.

- ગની દહીંવાલા (અબ્દુલગની અબ્દુલકરીમ)

Thursday, March 4, 2010

trust

Abraham Lincoln:

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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Agatha Christie:

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Albert Schweitzer:

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
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Alfred Adler:

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Arthur Eddington:

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Benjamin Spock:

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Booker T. Washington:

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Cardinal De Retz:

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Cicero:

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Demosthenes:

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.

E. M. Forster:

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Eliza Cook:

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Elizabeth Gilbert:

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.

Elizabeth Gilbert:

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

Erik H. Erikson:

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Finley Peter Dunne:

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Frank Crane:

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

George MacDonald:

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

Helen Rowland:

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Henry David Thoreau:

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Henry David Thoreau:

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Indira Gandhi:

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Ingrid Bergman:

You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

Johann Kaspar Lavater:

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

John Adams:

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John F. Kennedy:

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Konosuke Matsushita:

No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

Margaret Mead:

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country.

Nanette Newman:

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Norman Mailer:

He got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

Peter F. Drucker:

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

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. (adapted)

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Our distrust is very expensive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Richard Bach:

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Rita Mae Brown:

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Samuel Johnson:

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Thomas Jefferson:

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Thomas Jefferson:

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

true love

Love is in the giver, not the gift.

He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally.
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Nellie Curtiss
If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.

Willa Cather
Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Anna Louise Strong
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

G.W. Von Leibnitz
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Sir Hugh Walpoe
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.

Dicky Fox (Jerry Maguire's Mentor)
If you don't love everybody, you can't sell anybody.

If you don't have it here (pointing to the heart), it doesn't matter what you've got here (pointing at the head). Barbara Johnson
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Swedish Proverb
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, and all good things will be yours.

Mae West
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Barbara Johnson
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.


Lisa Hoffman
Love is like pi — natural, irrational, and VERY important.

Nora Roberts
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Anna Strong
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Baba Dioum
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Maureen Duffy
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.


The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.

Allan K. Chalmers
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

W. H. Auden
In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.

Janos Arnay
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Ovid
To be loved, be lovable.

true love

True love is not how you forgive, but how you forget, not what you see but what you feel, not how you listen but how you understand, and not how you let go but how you hold on.
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You are my soul mate, my sweetheart, you are my dream come true, from now until the end of time I give my heart and soul to you.
by Alhcjo30 -------
True love is not about the hugs and kisses, the 'I love you's' or the 'I miss you's', but about the chills that hit every part of your spine when you think about him.
by Lauren P -----
When we love, it isn't because the person's perfect, it's because we learn to see an imperfect person perfectly.

by Jessica

It's not who you are to the world, it's who you are to me. It's not how many times I say I love you... it's how much I really do.
by Mary Ann

Last night I looked up at the stars and matched each one with a reason why I love you. I was doing great until I ran out of stars.
by Kelsi

You may hold my hand for a while, but you hold my heart forever.

A priceless moment is when the person that you have fallen in love with, looks you right in the eyes to tell you that they have fallen in love with you.
by Monica

There may be many flowers in a man's life, but there is only one rose.
by Mike Lawrie Sr.

You know you truly love somebody when they hurt you so badly, but all you can think about it is the times when they made you smile.

philosophy

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes. ~Luigi Pirandello


Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit. ~Jonathan Winters


There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ~H.L. Mencken


Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ~Agnes' Law


Life is one big judgment call. ~The Quote Garden


Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid


Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


Life is a series of collisions with the future. ~José Ortega y Gasset


To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations


Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~Albert Einstein, in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929


Jack Palance: "Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean shit."
Billy Crystal: "Yeah, but what's that one thing?"
Jack Palance: "That's what you've got to figure out."
~From the movie City Slickers


Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey


Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown


Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Wind compiled by Cheewa James


Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? ~Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950


God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor


The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question. ~The Quote Garden


Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ~Mel Brooks


Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ~e.e. cummings

life

There is no finish line. ~Nike advertisement


It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson


Life is life, and death is life, and everything in between. ~Cherralea Morgen


I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein


The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson


The world is a sunny success. ~Ever Garrison


Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. ~Vita Sackville-West


The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps


In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown


The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen


Not unfortunately the universe is wild - game-flavoured as a hawk's wing. ~B.P. Blood


You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams


Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ~Learned Hand


The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus


Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. ~Albert Einstein


I gave my life to learning how to live.
Now that I have organized it all...
It is just about over.
~Sandra Hochman


There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~Anaïs Nin


[P]erhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. ~George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Adam Bede


Only a few things are really important. ~Marie Dressler
et us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker is sorry.

- Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we are all going to perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King Junior

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and Earth will have to pause and say,"Here lived a great sweeper, who swept his job well

- Martin Luther King, Jr., Facing The Challenge Of A New Age

Nothing short of our own errors should offend us. He who can willfully attempt to injure another is an object of pity rather than resentment; while it is a question in my mind if there is enough of a flatterer, a fool, or a liar to offend a whole-souled woman.

- Mary Baker Eddy

Technically, noting exists, and everything does not.

- Max Levin

...Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being."

- Max Planck

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

- Neil Gaiman

"According to the Buddha, these are all signs of a false identity: fear, attachment, shame, compulsion and rigidity. Hmmm. I feel like if I didn't have these things, I'd never clean my house. What's up with that?"

- Nerissa Nields

The greatest spiritual truths, with the greatest ability to transform our lives, are often the ones that look superficially like the twisted and sick rantings of a permanently-adolescent mental inadequate.¡±

- Pastor N. Pizzor


To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

- R. Leakey

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

- Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man" ( $ ) ( ? )

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
Osho

Sunday, February 28, 2010

love

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann


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It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

Glenway Wescott


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It is not only necessary to love, It is necessary to say so.

French proverb


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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Katherine Hepburn


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Love is great when you find someone to give it to.

Chris Myrick


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Love is neither true or false, love is love.

Camilla Saunders


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love is painful that is true not to love is painful too; but there is a greater pain: to love and not be loved again

John Fussle

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Heinlein


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Love is unconditional. . . Relationships are not.

Grant Gudmundson

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Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely.

anonymous


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Men are always sincere. They change sincerity, that's all!

Tristan Bernard


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My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.

Omar Kyyam


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No-one is ever betrayed by true love.

Jaufré Rudel


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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize.

Edmund Spenser


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Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Corneille


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Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away And all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then in silence, I can only hope, my eyes will speak my heart.

unknown


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Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning


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The heart has it's reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

Thomas Moore


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The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one, Yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon


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The speech of someone in love bores everyone except the loved one.

unknown


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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

G.K. Chesterton


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There is nothing like love in this world unless you experience
This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.

Petrach


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To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

Bess Myerson


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To lose your love is to have lived a thousand lives, and have them end all at once.

Rock


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You're not the only one who feels this way.


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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight


Christopher Marlowe
zindagi to bewafa hai, ek din thukrae gi,
maut mahebuba hai, apne saath le kar jaaegi.girish

LOVE

Love is a language spoken by everyone,
but understood only by a heart.

~ Shirley Rindani ~

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People need love even when they don't deserve it.

~ Nikki Ledbetter ~

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For every word you say,
another piece of my heart you take.

~ Tiara Johnson ~

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Maybe God put a few bad people in your life,
so when the right one came along you'd be thankful.

~ Andrea Kiefer ~

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Love the heart that hurts you,
But never hurt the heart that loves you.

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Love me for a reason,
let the reason be love.

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It doesn't take a reason to love someone,
but it does to like someone. You don't love
someone because you want to, you love someone
because you are destined too. It's because you
fall in Love with them, that you then try to
find a reason, but you always come up with
the answer, No reason!

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Love is the beginning of all the joy
which nature has store for us.

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Never say goodbye when you still want to try.
Never give up when you still feel you can take it.
Never say you don't love a person when you can't let go.

~ Dons ~
Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's
called falling in love, because you don't force
yourself to fall, you just fall.

~ ISUDAN GADHVI

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Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman,
but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.

~ ~ ISUDAN GADHVI

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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,
an hour to like someone, and an day to love someone...
but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

~~ ISUDAN GADHVI

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It breaks your heart to see the one you love is happy
with someone else, but it's more painful to know that
the one you love is unhappy with you.

~~ ISUDAN GADHVI~

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If love is the answer,
can you please repeat the question?

~ Unknown ~

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Faith makes all things possible.
Love makes them easy.

~ Unknown

I believe that to truly Love, is the ultimate
expression of the will to live. A heart that
truly loves is forever young.

~ Unknown ~

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Love makes life so confusing, but without love
would you really want to live?

~ Unknown ~

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Do you love me because I am beautiful
or am I beautiful because I am loved?

~ Unknown ~

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Love me now, love me never,
but if you love me, love me forever.

~ ~ ISUDAN GADHVI ~

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Three things of life that are most valuable -
Love, self-confidence & friends.

~ ~ ISUDAN GADHVI

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To the world you may be just one person,
but to one person you may be the world.

~ Unknown ~

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Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell.

~ Unknown ~

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Who do you turn to when the only person
in the world that can stop you from crying,
is exactly the one making you cry?

~ Unknown ~

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He taught me how to love,
but not how to stop.

~~ ISUDAN GADHVI ~

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.

~ Unknown ~

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We come to love not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

~ Unknown ~

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Many a young lady does not realize just how strong
her love for a young man is until he fails to pass
the approval test with her parents.

~ Unknown ~

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Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her
than a man she loves.

~ Unknown ~

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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says 'For the woman I love' and the second, 'For my best friend.'

~ Unknown ~

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A good marriage is like a casserole,
only those responsible for it really
know what goes in it.

~ Unknown ~

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No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

~ Unknown ~

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Love, true love, is that which can give the most
without asking or demanding anything in return.

~ Mazie Hammond ~

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Where there is love, there is God also.

~ Leo Tolstoy ~

love

Here's a large collection of famous love quotes and sayings. These love quotes are inspiring and beautiful.


Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
~ from the movie Moulin Rouge ~

Other men said they have seen angels,
But I have seen thee
And thou art enough.
~ by G. Moore ~

I would fly you to the moon and back if you'll be . . . if you'll be my baby.
~ From a song by Savage Garden ~

I love you - those three words have my life in them.
~ by Alexandrea to Nicholas III ~

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder'd at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr'd for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you.
~ by John Keats ~

I'd like to run away
From you,
But if you didn't come
And find me ...
I would die.
~ by Shirley Bassey ~

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
~ by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) ~

The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is to love and be loved in return.
~ From "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole

Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
~ by Percy Bysshe Shelly ~

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss.
I've always found time to teach them.
~ by Mae West ~