Peace and contentment lies not in getting what you want but in wanting what you get.
- Anonymous
I don't think about what I missed. I think about what I had.
- Katharine Hepburn
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
- Anonymous
There are many important things which cannot be seen merely with one's eyes;
there are those things that can only be seen with the heart.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
There is a legend about a bird which sings, just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen and God in his heavens smiles. For the best is bought at the cost of great pain... or so says the legend.
- From The Thorn Birds
By Colleen Mccullogh
...no man knows 'till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be!
- bram stoker
If you were paid ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke, and had to pay five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
A friend is one who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
The doorstep of a friend's house is never far.
Friends share the same silences.
Some people see things as they are and ask, "Why?"
I see things that never were and ask, "Why not?"
- G. B. Shaw
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king.
- H. G. Wells
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
- Angela Monet
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
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