Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Buddha (5th cent BC)

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

St. Augustine (354-430)

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Janis Joplin (1943-1970)

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oprah Winfrey

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Tom Waits

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

Lucille Ball (1911-1989)

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Cass Elliot (1941-1974)

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless."

Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

''A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.''
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet. Memoirs, ch. 11 (1974, trans. 1977).

Bob Marley (1945-1981)

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Buddha (500BC)

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

John Keats (1795-1821)

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Mignon Mclaughlin (1913-1983)

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.