Affection

• In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

• Most people would rather give than get affection.

• The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

• wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

• Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

• We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do

• You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

• Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

• Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Acceptance

• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

• One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

• Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

• The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

• Accept everything about yourself I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end no apologies, no regrets.

• Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

• Some people swallow the universe like a pill, they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

• We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

• I wish they would only take me as I am.

• The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

• The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Abuse

• One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just, but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum, you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

• I do not waste my time in answering abuse, I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.

• We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

Quotations

As I was walking up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.

We have met the enemy and they are us!

the high cost of
living isnt so bad if you
dont have to pay for it

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Clouds, birds, tree tops
The freedom of being on high
Closer to the sun
Further from the slum,
But farther to fall when they die.

I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Within your lifetime will, perhaps,
As souvenirs from distant suns
Be carried back to earth some maps
Of planets and you'll find that one's
So hard to color that you've got
To use five crayons. Maybe, not.

No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The Great Way has no gate.
Clear water has no taste.
The tongue has no bone.
In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?

You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.

Decorate yourself from the inside out.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

When you start treating people like people, they become people.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Quotes on Loneliness

Loneliness

Is
An island
In
The middle
Of
A sea of people

Loneliness is part of being human.
It reminds us that we are not
Complete in ourselves.

People are lonely because they build
Walls instead of bridges.

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

“Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone”

Peace

"Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed
or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.
Peace, for example, starts within each one of us.
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us."