Rufus Christopher > Rufus's Quotes

“If your parents didn’t have any children, there is a good chance that you won’t have any.”
― Clarence Day

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
― Daphne Rae, Love Until It Hurts: The Work of Mother Teresa and Her Missionaries of Charity

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

“Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

“Not forever does the bulbul sing
In balmy shades of bowers,
Not forever lasts the spring
Nor ever blossom the flowers.
Not forever reigneth joy,
Sets the sun on days of bliss,
Friendships not forever last,
They know not life, who know not this.”
― Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan