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Some of My Quotes:

"Live for today and love for tomorrow."   ~NRH~

"Heartache can't be cured like the common cold."   ~NRH~  

"In the wrong hands, reason can be a weapon that can destoy not only the mind, but also the soul, and when trying to rationalize such things as emotion, the destruction is powerful enough to kill."   ~NRH~

"Distance can only be measured by the heart."   ~NRH~

"It isn't the things around the corner that scare me, it is the little trap doors in the floor that you can't see coming."   ~NRH~

"In an hour of need, one must look beyond one's self for that moment and look to the future for hope."   ~NRH~

"When you dream, you see who you really are, for a dream is merely a glimpse into the soul."   ~NRH~

"Love is like a black hole in that you are pulled into it and all the shards of light are bent so that nothing seems real and everything around you seems to be falling up...it is one wild ride that you never want to get off."   ~NRH~

"When you are sad or feel alone, you must remember the past and hope only for a better future."   ~NRH~

"Envisioned light is a sorrow heart's dream."   ~NRH~

"The physics of love seems simple like laminar flow of a fluid in motion when compared to the turbulence of everyday life."   ~NRH

"Life is like a river…
Starting with a trickle, and gaining momentum down the mountain…
But, it is in the deepest; darkest valleys that we truly find ourselves
and learn how to watch for the sharp turns ahead."   ~NRH~

"Thoughts spread like a plague among men.  Ideas are the disease that we only hope to catch."   ~NRH~

"To see a great mind in action, you must speak… to be that great mind; you must take in what is being said."   ~NRH~

"Grabbing at the world, we find we are only choking ourselves."   ~NRH~

"Reading is nothing more than a form of plagiarism… it takes from the minds of others to create a makeshift world that only leads us down a false path."   ~NRH~

"A whisper on my lips
Days when I think of you
When I couldn’t live my life without you"   ~NRH~

"Perpetual motion is yet to come right after the subliminal thoughts of centripetal motion are met on an emotional level."   ~NRH~

"We are all but a dream in the minds of others."   ~NRH~

"Without you here
there is no light;
for holding you
was my world."   ~NRH~



Other quotes/works I really like:


On Friendship
And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
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 the 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 Gibran~


"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."      
~Kaleel Jamison~


"We really have to protect people from wrong choices."
~The Giver~



If I speak in the tongues of men and angels,
but have not love,
I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.  

And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing.  

And if I dole out all my goods, and
if I deliver my body that I may boast
but have not love, nothing I am profited.

Love is long suffering,
love is kind,
it is not jealous,
love does not boast,
it is not inflated.

It is not discourteous,
it is not selfish,
it is not irritable,
it does not enumerate the evil.
It does not rejoice over the wrong, but rejoices in the truth  

It covers all things,
it has faith for all things,
it hopes in all things,
it endures in all things.

Love never falls in ruins;
but whether prophecies, they will be abolished; or
tongues, they will cease; or
knowledge, it will be superseded.

For we know in part and we prophecy in part.

But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be superseded.  

When I was an infant,
I spoke as an infant,
I reckoned as an infant;

when I became [an adult],
I abolished the things of the infant.  

For now we see through a mirror in an enigma, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know as also I was fully known.  

But now remains
faith, hope, love,

these three;

but the greatest of these is love.

~ 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ~




It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations  
~Kahlil Gibran~


A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
~Rob Cella~


Some day, after we have mastered the winds and the waves, the tides and gravity, we will harness the energies of love. And, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
~Unknown~


The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.
~Saint Augustine~


I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
~Chang Tzu~


"Peace is always beautiful."
 The Sleepers. 7.
~Walt Whitman~


Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.
~Helen Keller~


To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu~


And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
~Kahlil Gibran~


Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
~Erica Jong~


Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
~Buddha~


All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true.
~T.E. Lawrence~


I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them
~E.V. Lucas~


I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
~Albert Einstein~


Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.
~Kahill Gibran~


People don't fall in love with what's right in front of them. People want the dream -- what they can't have. The more unattainable, the more attractive.
~Xander~


Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. ~Ellen Goodman~