Courtesy of Alan Ayers
There is common ground that kindred spirits walk...
shared thoughts that forever bind their souls.
- Unknown
But now I know that the skin just veils the soul
For I have seen, the face of love
The grace of God, the face of love.
- Jewel
(From her song Face of Love,
Joy: A Holiday Collection album)
"What is Real?" asked the Rabbit one day...
"Does it mean having things that buzz inside you
and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse.
"It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves
you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but
really loves you, then you become Real."
- Margery Williams, Velveteen Rabbit
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles
between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in
your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just
live in a world but a world lives in you.
- Frederick Buechner
May you take time to reflect with gratitude and to
love and appreciate those whom God has chosen
to cross your Life's path.
- Ashleigh Austin
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
I would rather have one rose and a kind word
from a friend while I'm here
than a whole truck load when I'm gone.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
- Old Rose, from Titanic
We try to give what little we have to somebody who hasn't got it,
and maybe they try to give us back some of what they have that
we haven't got. That's what love is. That's all it is.
- Anne Rivers Siddons
Life is precious. There is no time to leave important words unsaid
or a kindness undone.
- Flavia
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently
back to yourself.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past,
your future, the arms of love gather you together.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has
the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of
genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the
other is always maintained and preserved.
- M. Scott Peck
Some people give without asking and remember every kindness.
Perhaps this is love in its purest form.
- Flavia
Many persons have the wrong idea about what constitutes
true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
When we give of ourselves, we share the finest gift of all.
- Flavia
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without
and know we cannot live within.
- James Baldwin
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to
what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your
soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatest gift one can give to another person
is a deeper understanding of life and the ability
to love and believe in self.
- Chantal
God determines who walks into your life...
it's up to you to decide who you let walk away,
who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.
-Unknown
Love never reasons but profusely gives;
gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
and trembles lest it has done too little.
-Hannah Moore
Do small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa
Love is the highest respect.
Love means caring for somebody more than yourself.
It is putting somebody else's pleasure and happiness and
well-being above your own. It is sacrificing yourself for
another and enjoying doing it. It is knowing someone's
every fault and blemish and not caring.
No one can define it; it just is.
- Dorothy Dix (1860-1951)
I believe in the Sun when it is not shining.
I believe in Love even when I cannot feel it.
I believe in God even when He is silent.
The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.
- Leonard Nimoy
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over,
it became a butterfly.
- Proverb
Life is not measured by the number of breaths
we take, but by the moments that
take our breath away.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the LIFE in your years.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living
tomorrow.
- Euripides
Live so that when your children hear these words
they think of you...
Fairness, Caring, Integrity, Honesty, Love, Trust.
- Anonymous
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains
and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
You don't stop playing because you grow old...
You grow old because you stop playing.
The soul would have no rainbow,
had the eyes no tears.
-John Vance Cheney
Is your heart and spirit bitter or better
because of Life's journeys?
Some people, no matter how old they get,
never lose their beauty - they merely move it
from their faces into their hearts.
- Martin Buxbaum
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced;
live your life so that when you die,
the world cries, and you rejoice.
- Cherokee Saying
A mother holds our hand for a while...
but our heart forever.
Life gives us friends so we can share the growing up...
and growing down and old.
There are no goodbyes of the heart.
Home is where your story begins.
-Annie Danielson
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw,
or hold so fast,
as love can do with a twined thread.
-Robert Burton (1577-1640)
"And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the
mind.
"Caring and seeing with the heart," answered the
soul.
- Flavia Weedn
We are all perpetual students of research and discovery
at the University of Life where we never fully complete
our courses and never receive our diplomas.
I'd rather have roses on my table,
than diamonds on my neck.
Giving up doesn't
always mean you
are weak . . .
Sometimes, it means you are strong
enough to let go.
A friend is someone who knows the song in
your heart . . .
and can sing it back to you even when you
have forgotten the words.
They say it only takes a minute to find
a special person ...
an hour to appreciate them ...
a day to love them ...
but an entire lifetime to forget them.
More to Come!
