Quotes

My Favorite Quotes

Friendship


 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
 - Robert Louis Stevenson


Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they 
can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elizabeth Foley


No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the 
friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded 
of each others worth.
- Robert Southey


True friendship multiplies the good in life and 
divides it's evils. Strive to have friends, for life without
friends is like life on a desert island. To find one real 
friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep 
him is a blessing.
- Baltasar Gracian


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not
so good and sympathizes with your problems when they're
no so bad. 
- Arnold H. Glasgow




Tough Stuff


There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain 
that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
- R.D. Laing


There is no way to know before experiencing.
- Dr. Robert Anthony


We are healed from a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
- Marcel Proust


Although the world is full of suffering 
it is also full of overcoming it.
- Helen Keller


Your pain is the breaking of the shell that
encloses your understanding.
- Kahlil Gibran


What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
- Nietzsche


Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and
trying when you know you can lose.
- Tom Krause


Not everything that can be faced can be changed. But nothing
can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin


Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
- M. Kathleen Casey


The problem is now that their are problems. The problem is 
expecting otherwise and thinking that 
having problems is a problem. 
- Theodore Rubin




Love


I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.
- Lisa Bonet


The heart has eyes the brain knows nothing of.
- Charles Perkhurst


Love can feel like magic but magic is just an illusion.
- Anonymous