My Favorite Quotes for Any Occasion

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
~ Muhammad Ali

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
~ Laurence J. Peter

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~ George MacDonald

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~ Oprah Winfrey

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
~ Leo Buscaglia

A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you.
~ Author Unknown

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
~ Albert Einstein

I love all beauteous things,
I seek and adore them;
~ Robert Bridges (1844-1930), British poet, critic

If you're going to do something, do it with style.
~ Daisy Fuentes

You cannot get sick enough to help sick people get better. You cannot get poor enough to help poor people thrive. It is only in your thriving that you have anything to offer anyone. If you're wanting to be of an advantage to others, be as tapped in, turned in, turned on as you can possibly be.
~ Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in San Diego, CA on Saturday, February 15th, 2003 #662

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~ Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
~ G.K. Chesterton

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
~ Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
~ Charles Dickens

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!
~ Author Unknown

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.
~ Dave Barry