Quotes
Adversity
"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the handle or the blade." --JAMES RUSSEL LOWELL
Dreams & Dreamers
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."-- CHARLES FISHER
Enemies
"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our destruction." --AESOP
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." --VOLTAIRE
Family
"All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." --LEO TOLSTOY
Fear
"A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn't make one afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it." --COLETTE
"Present fears are less horrible than horrible imaginings." --SHAKESPEARE
"To him who is afraid, everything rustles." --SOPHOCLES
"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear." --BENEDICT DE SPINOZA
Forgiveness
"He who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most submlime enjoyment of love." --JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Friends & Friendship
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." --ARISTOTLE
A faithful friend is the medicine of life." --BIBLE; Ecclesiasticus 6:16
"Have no friends not equal to yourself." --CONFUCIOUS
"Fate makes our relatives, choice makes our friends." --JAQUES DELILLE
Happiness
"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."-- ERIC HOFFER
"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so." --JOHN STUART MILL
Hatred & Dislike
"I do desire we may be better strangers." --SHAKESPEARE
Help
"If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain. --EMILY DICKINSON
"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others." --ELBERT HUBBARD
"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after." --SHAKESPEARE
Hope
"Hope is a risk that must be run."-- GEORGES BERNANOS
"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man." --FRIEDRICH NEITZSCHE
Life
"Life is just one damned thing after another."-- ELBERT HUBBARD
"It's not true life is one damn thing after another--it's one damn thing over and over."-- EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
"Life is short, but its ills make it seem long." --PUBLILIUS SYRUS
