"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."
— Gloria Steinem

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

"Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it."
— Mark Twain

"Where there is love there is life."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
'Even longer,' Pooh answered."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
— Helen Keller

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."
— Albert Camus

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
— Aristotle

"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"The best mirror is an old friend."
— George Herbert

"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"I fall asleep with my friends around me, the only place i know. I'm going to call this home."
— Jimmy Eat World

"Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another."
— Siddhartha Gautama

"No friendship is an accident. "
— O. Henry (Heart of the West)

"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
— Kahlil Gibrán

"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget."
— Anonymous

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
— John Holmes

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard."
— Walter Dean Myers (Slam!)

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live.

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
— Kahlil Gibrán (The Prophet)

"Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (El Masnavi)

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. "
— Ali bin Abi Thalib

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone"
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can't cope.

And when you take the lead,
I become your footstep.
Your absence leaves a void.
Without you, I can't cope.

You have disturbed my sleep,
You have wrecked my image.
You have set me apart.
Without you, I can't cope."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi)

"the language of friendship is not words but meanings."
— Henry David Thoreau

"They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"The best time to make friends is before you need them."
— Ethel Barrymore

"" Live. And Live Well.

BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply.

Be PRESENT. Do
not be past. Do not be future. Be now.

On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day,
roll down the windows and

FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of
the sun.

If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to

FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.

Get knee-deep in a novel
and LOSE track of time.

If you bike, pedal HARDER and if you crash then crash
well.

Feel the SATISFACTION of a job well done-a paper well-written, a project
thoroughly completed, a play well-performed.

If you must wipe the snot from your
3-year old's nose, don't be disgusted if the Kleenex didn't catch it all

because soon he'll be wiping his own.

If you've recently experienced loss, then
GRIEVE. And Grieve well.

At the table with friends and family, LAUGH.

If you're
eating and laughing at the same time, then might as well laugh until you puke.

And if you eat, then SMELL.

The aromas are not impediments to your day. Steak on
the grill, coffee beans freshly ground, cookies in the oven.

And TASTE.

Taste every ounce of flavor.

Taste every ounce of friendship.

Taste every ounce of Life.

Because-it-is-most-definitely-a-Gift.""
— Kyle Lake

"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"All I'm trying to tell you is to be strong. Don't ever let nothing get you down. Don't be afraid or ashamed to love, or to grieve when the thing you love is gone. Just don't let it throw you, no matter how much it hurts."
— Patrick D. Smith (A Land Remembered)

"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (El Masnavi)

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (RUMI: Selections from the Masnavi)

"Don't be stupid, privacy is an illusion in today's electronic world. And i always investigate the people who interest me"
— Shannon McKenna (Edge of Midnight)

""Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged''"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect."
— Euripides