Written storms.

Thursday, August 14, 2003

"Keep your mind set on the future, your memories planted in the past, and always your heart where it is right at this moment."

"We do not remember days, we remember moments." -Cesare Pavese

"It is a luxury to be understood."

"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire." -La Rochefoucauld

"You can be upset because rosebushes have thorns. Or you can rejoice because thornbushes have roses."

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."

"To the world you may be one person, to one person you may be the world."

"A lifetime's not too long to live as friends." -Michael Smith

"People who light up your life usually know where the switch is."

"Having some impact on another person, shaping his or her life in some small but vital way, is one of the most enduring satisfactions we will know." -Rabbi Harold Kushner

"It's not what you say, but how you say it that makes all the difference in human relationships." -Hughes Mearns

"A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you've forgotten the words."

"The most discovery true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind."

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

"This is a world of action, and nor for moping and droning in." -Charles Dickens

"I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in god even when he is silent."

"You never know what a single word of encouragement can do to change someone's life."

"People think it's fun being a super genius but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the real idiots in the world." -Calvin & Hobbes

"You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time you must make it." -Charles Buxton

"Problems are something I can do something about - if I can't, it's not a problem but a fact of life."

"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see." -Baltasar Gracian

"Self-control is the best of all vows. Sweetness of speech, benevolence, absence of malice, anger, and hatred, forgiveness, patience, forbearance, non-violence, modesty, courtesy, good behavior, truth, straight-forwardness, and firmness - the combination of all these constitutes self-control." -Sivananda

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid doing altogether."

"She has no point, she often has no point, it's part of her charm." -A Few Good Men

"If you were right, I'd agree with you." -Awakenings

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." -Charlie Brown

"People that like you make you laugh. People that love you make you cry."

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. By, why can't it be mine." -Pearl Jam

"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes." -Elizabeth Ashley

"Home is not where you live but where they understand you."