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LOVE

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, and it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."  -St. Augustine

“I didn't ask for it to be over, but then again, I never asked for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunsets.” -Source Unknown

“I wanted a perfect ending, now I've learned; the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.” -Gilda Radner.

When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.  ~Robert Heinlein

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.  ~Rabindranath Tagore

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.  ~Douglas Yates

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Love is a game that two can play and both win.  ~Eva Gabor

FRIENDSHIP

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it.  ~Edgar Watson Howe

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.  ~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  ~Arnold Glasow

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  ~William Blake

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.  ~Dave Tyson Gentry

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  ~Henry David Thoreau

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.  ~Frances Ward Weller

There is magic in long-distance friendships.  They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.  ~Diana Cortes



DEATH

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest. - Florynce Kennedy

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. - Margaret J. Wheatley

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. - Robert Fulghum

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. - Saul Alinsky

And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain,
My friends, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way. - Paul Anka

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? - William Shakespeare

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

WISDOM

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.- Naguib Mahfouz

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it. - David Starr Jordan

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. - Oprah Winfrey

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. - Baltasar Gracian

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. – Benjamin Franklin

SAD

You never know what you have until you lose it.  Source unknown"It's funny how a person can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces." Source unknown

"When you left, I lost a part of me."  Source unknown

"A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried."  Source unknown

My heart was taken by you, broken by you, and now it is in pieces because of you.  Source unknown
If you love me like you told me, please be careful with my heart; you can take it; just don't break it or my world will fall apart.  Source unknown

Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.  Source unknown

"The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else. " Source unknown

"If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go."  Source unknown

"My heart was taken by you, broken by you and now it's in pieces because of you." Source unknown

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COOL

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

What if "the hokey pokey" is REALLY what it's all about? - Curtis Spencer

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. - Source Unknown

Every wall is a door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to be killed then frightened to death. - Robert S. Surtees

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. - Edgar Allan Poe

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. - Flip Wilson

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Mark Twain