"The more one judges, the less one loves."
- Honoré de Balzac
"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."
- Roy T. Bennett
"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."
- Jess C. Scott
"Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people."
"and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful."
- Ruskin Bond
"It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks ..."
- Criss Jami
"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time."
- C. JoyBell C.
"I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to g..."
"I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels b..."
"When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer