quotes on life and friendship

Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Jean-Luc Picard, Stardate 42823.2



Quote A: �It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.� ~Jessamyn West



We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. ~Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949



No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ~George Bernard Shaw



Skipping is the walk of joy. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. ~Jennifer James



The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963



No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. ~Llewelyn Powys



I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. ~Joanne Sherman



Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. ~Jose Marti, letter, 1890



Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ~Joseph Conrad



The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. ~Hasidic Saying



There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. ~Woody Hayes



The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate



We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. ~Henry David Thoreau



So what? So plenty! ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak



Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ~Jane Wagner



The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay. ~Troy Perry



I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway. ~Author Unknown