"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven." -John Lubbock

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." - A.A. Milne

"I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, huts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laugh and cries." - Theodore Isaac Rubin

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is." - Jim Morrison

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Octavia Butler

"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun."

Charles R. Swindoll    

"Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be." -Gandhi

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."  -Thomas Aquinas

"Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest... It's about who came, and never left your side..." - Unknown

"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile... But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me."-Unknown

"A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else."-Unknown

"There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will." - Unknown

"No legacy is so rich as to honesty." - William Shakespeare

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell

"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality." -Abraham Lincoln

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

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." -William Shakespeare 

"No matter how hard  the past, you can  always  begin again." - Buddha

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand." - Henri Nouwen

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you're going through hell, keep going. " -Winston Churchill

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves." -Maria Edgeworth

"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful." -George Bernard Shaw

"Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go." -Natalie Goldberg

"Life is about choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you like to be." -Author unknown

"Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about." -Winston Churchill

"What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever." -Mary Jo Putney

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley

"If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that."
-Frances Burnett

"Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about." - Author Unknown

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." -Jim Rohn

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

"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are." - Don Miguel Ruiz

"What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face -- they're never going to change. But every once in a while, is you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that." -Tyler Perry

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -George Woodberry

"Don't put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you're ever living is in this moment." - unknown author 

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything." - Napoleon Hill