• don't let your happiness depend on someone elses actions.
• a friend will joyfully sing with you when you are on the mountain top, and silently walk beside you through the valley. - anonymous
• true friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; it's about being there when it's not. - anonymous
• holding anger is a poison. it eats you from the inside. we think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. but hatred is a curved blade. and the harm we do, we do to ourselves. - mitch albom
• but all endings are also beginnings. we just don't know it at the time. - mitch albom
• don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. - erma bombeck
• it takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. - erma bombeck
• when i stand before God at the end of my life, i would hope that i would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "i used everything you gave me." - erma bombeck
• i try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. - charlotte brontë
• life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. - charlotte brontë
• there are worse things than being alone - charles bukowski
• you have enemies? good. that means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - winston churchill
• have the courage to live. anyone can die. - robert cody
• hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. - charles caleb colton
• saying nothing... sometimes says the most - emily dickinson
• opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - thomas a. edison
• that's just the way things go. we meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind. - takayuki ikkaku, arisa hosaka and toshihiro kawabata
• sometimes being a good friend means being harsh. - takayuki ikkaku, arisa hosaka and toshihiro kawabata
• all a good letter has to do is make you feel special. - takayuki ikkaku, arisa hosaka and toshihiro kawabata
• it's not about the writing. it's about the feelings behind the words. - takayuki ikkaku, arisa hosaka and toshihiro kawabata
• memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you. - takayuki ikkaku, arisa hosaka and toshihiro kawabata
• when someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer just yell, 'figure it out!' - takayuki ikkaku, arisa hosaka and toshihiro kawabata
• don't forget to love yourself. - søren kierkegaard
• God creates out of nothing. wonderful you say. yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. - søren kierkegaard
• it is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. but they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. - søren kierkegaard
• it is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. - søren kierkegaard
• just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. - søren kierkegaard
• what is a poet? an unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. - søren kierkegaard
• education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - c. s. lewis
• i have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. - c. s. lewis
• to love is to be vulnerable - c. s. lewis
• if you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now. - matthew v. lewis, {House M.D.}
• the most difficult lie i ever contended with is this: life is a story about me. - donald miller
• if ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must remember: you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think, but the most important thing is, even if we're apart, i'll always be with you - a. a. milne {winnie the pooh}
• some people care too much. i think it's called love - a. a. milne {winnie the pooh}
• never tell people how to do things. tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - george s. patton
• sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them - elvis presley
• a friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - donna roberts
• the curious paradox is that when i accept myself just as i am, then i can change - carl rogers
• the truth. it is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. - j. k. rowling {harry potter and the philosopher's stone}
• love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - antoine de saint-exupéry
• you know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - dr. seuss
• love wasn't put in your heart to stay. love isn't love until you give it away. - michael w. smith
• there is no wisdom without love - n. sri ram
• nothing is said that has not been said before. - terence
• i know God will not give me anything i can't handle. i just wish that He didn't trust me so much. - mother teresa
• bravery never goes out of fashion. - william m. thackeray
• not all who wander are lost. - j. r. r. tolkien
• i am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all of my heart. – vincent van gogh
• its a small world, but i wouldn't want to paint it - steven wright
• maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. - john green

to be cont.