Life Quotations...Inspirational and intriguing quotations...

Quotations..
�I have always enjoyed reading quotations and find that there is a wealth of life's lessons to be learned in doing so. I should like to share with you now some of my favourite ones...

On Love..

Nothing makes one so loveable as believing that one is loved.��Pierre Marivaux

To love is to know the sacrifices that eternity extracts from life.��Pearl Craigie

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the quick mind beholds at every turn.��Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of Heaven, unasked and unsought.��Pearl Buck
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because snow was important to them..there should be as many for love.��Margaret Atwood

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.��George Eliot

We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in the full glow of others.��Walter Rauschenbusch

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.��Antoine de Saint-Exupery

This next quote is a variation of an original quote which we all know. This one, though, was given to me from an online friend who told me that it was 'his' quote for a long time. *smile*..
Loving someone is the greatest feeling there is; losing someone is the worst hurt there is..but, it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

On Life..

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.��Henry Ward Beecher

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.��George Bernard Shaw

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think.��John Wooden

Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.��Christine Rossetti

Life is about knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity...��Gilda Radner

On Aspirations..

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.��Maya Angelou

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.��Benjamin Disraeli

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?��Robert Browning
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes a goal.��Pamela Vaull Starr

Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands; but, like the seafaring man, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you will reach your destiny.��Carl Schurz

On Beauty..

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"--that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.��John Keats

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.��Edgar Allan Poe

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.��R. Buckminster Fuller
Friendships, family ties, the companionship of little children, an autumn forest flung in prodigality against a deep blue sky, the intricate design and haunting fragrance of a flower, the counterpoint of a Bach fugue or the melodic line of a Beethoven sonata, the fluted note of bird song, the glowing glory of a sunset; the world is aflame with things of eternal moment.��E. Margaret Clarkson

On Adversity..

In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds.��Nizami
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.��Marcus Aurelius

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience does not dry.��Bret Harte

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.��Helen Keller

On Hope..

Hope is the thing with feathers--that perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, and never stops--at all.��Emily Dickinson

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.��Amy Lowell

An optimist is the human personification of spring.��Susan J. Bissonette

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?��Gilbert Keith Chesterton

On Joy..

To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.��Mark Twain
We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.��Philip F. Bernstein

There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savoured to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not ever taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.��Agnes Sligh Turnbull

A new day rose upon me. It was as if another sun had risen into the sky; the heavens were indescribably brighter, and the earth fairer; and that day has gone on brightening to the present hour. I have known the other joys of life, I suppose, as much as most men; I have known art and beauty, music and gladness; I have known friendship and love and family ties; but it is certain that till we see God in the world--God in the bright and boundless universe--we never know the highest joy. It is far more than if one were translated to a world a thousand times fairer than this; for that supreme and central Light of Infinite Love and Wisdom, shining over this world and all worlds, alone can show us how noble and beautiful, how fair and glorious they are.��Orville Dewey

On Laughter..

He who laughs, lasts.��Mary Pettibone Poole

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.��Golda Meir

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.��Agnes Repplier

We know the degree of refinement in men by the matter they laugh at and by the ring of the laugh.��George Meredith

I was talking to an online friend of mine this morning, September 26, 1998, and he told me he had something for me, which he was sending via e-mail. He told me that when he had read it, he thought of me. I opened the mail and read the following...

The Wise Woman's Stone
A wise woman who was travelling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveller who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation.
The traveller left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But, a few days later, he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. "I've been thinking," he said. "I know how valuable this stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me this stone."
...from The Best of Bits & Pieces

I was completely overwhelmed, to say the least, to know that my friend thought of me, after having read that remarkable story. And further honoured, when I told him how beautiful it was and he replied, "'Tis you, kiddo." That online friend is Wally, my very good friend from Florida, who I am happy to announce, has not had to deal with the devastation of Hurricane George, as I was worried he might. He is a wonderful, caring person, and I adore him so.

The last item I shall include here is an excerpt from a writing of Helen Keller, entitled "A Child Learns About Love". While I read this, fresh tears welled up in my eyes with each passing word. It is a very moving, poignant description of love.."I remember the morning that I first asked the meaning of the word "love". This was before I knew many words. I had found a few early violets in the garden and brought them to my teacher. She tried to kiss me, but at that time I did not like to have anyone kiss me except my mother. Miss Sullivan put her arm gently round me and spelled into my hand,"I love Helen."
"What is love?" I asked.
She drew me closer to her and said, "It is here," pointing to my heart. ...Her words puzzled me very much because I did not then understand anything unless I touched it.
I smelled the violets in her hand and asked, half in words, half in signs, a question which meant, "Is love the sweetness of flowers?"
"No," said my teacher.
Again I thought. The warm sun was shining on us.
"Is this not love?" I asked, pointing in the direction from which the heat came...
A day or two afterward...the sun had been under a cloud all day, and there had been brief showers, but suddenly the sun broke forth in all its southern splendor. Again I asked my teacher, "Is this not love?"
"Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out," she replied. Then in simpler words than these, which at that time I could not have understood, she explained: "You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play."
The beautiful truth burst upon my mind~I felt that these were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirit of others."

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