"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."

Berlin, Irving | Attitude | 11 bookmarks

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

Southey, Robert | Friends and Friendship | 7 bookmarks

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

Gibran, Kahlil | Love | 3 bookmarks

"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."

Groening, Matt | Love | 3 bookmarks

"Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."

Byron, Lord | Lovers | 3 bookmarks

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh | Love | 10 bookmarks

"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian | Money | 14 bookmarks

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther | Hatred | 42 bookmarks

"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."

Soros, George | Mistakes | 3 bookmarks

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

Tibolt, Frank | Action | 7 bookmarks