Below you will find some of my favorite sayings, which I have either read (and written down), saved or collected over time. I believe that sharing good thoughts is like sharing excellent food -one walks away full of good feelings.

On life

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that man will not merely endure – he will prevail. He is immortal, not only because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit, capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

- William Faulkner

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will create the fact.

- William James

Life is not how you opened its door or how you close it, but what you do during the fleeting moments between.

- The author

On love

He loves each of us, as if there were only one of us.

- St. Augustine

‘Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Tennyson

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and purify the heart.

- Washington Irving

I never knew a night so black light failed to follow in its tracks. I never knew a storm so gray it failed to have its clearing day. I never knew such bleak despair that there was not a rift somewhere. I never knew an hour so drear love could not fill it full of cheer!

- John Kendrick Bangs

Love cannot be forced; love cannot be coaxed or teased. It comes out of Heaven, unmasked and unsought.

- Pearl Buck

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

- George Eliot

The kindest and happiest pair will find occasion to forbear. And something every day they live, to pity, and perhaps forgive.

- William Cowper

The loss of a true love forces a long swim in the river of despair.

- The author

On peace

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

- Blaise Pascal

But sometimes through the Soul of man, slow moving o’er his pain, the moonlight of a perfect peace floods heart and brain.