"It's the silence between the notes that makes the music." ~Ancient Proverb

"I open the door. The gorgeous guest from afar sweeps in. In her hands are her gifts - the gifts of mornings and evenings, the gift of spring and summer, the gift of autumn and winter. She must have searched the heavens for boons so rare." ~ Abbie Graham

"When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries." ~Ed Hayes

"Easting is heaven." ~Korean proverb

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss." ~Thomas Carlyle

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour." ~William Blake

"For it is only the love of honor that never grows old; and honor it is, not gain as some would have it, that rejoices the heart of age and helplessness." ~Pericles, Funeral Oration

"The world is a book and those who do not travel only read one page." ~St. Augustine

"In the beginning nothing comes.
In the middle nothing stays.
In the end nothing goes."
~Milarepa

"Too much Sanity is madness, but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be."

""Den elpizo tipota; den fovumai tipota; eimai eleftheros"
(I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free!)

"Don’t ask who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life."
~George Seferis; Life 17 Jan 64

"Negative habits breed negative consequences. Successful habits create positive rewards."

“Success is the logical and predictable result of doing the right things, in the right way, at the right time, and that is curiously EASY if we are focused and paying attention.

What is hard is living a chaotic, confused and distracted life while we "hope" for success to jump up and bite us. It just doesn't work that way!”

"How hard it is to keep from being king, when it's in you and in the situation. And that is half the trouble with the world, (or more than half I'm inclined to say.)"
~Robert Frost

"The Tao gives birth to all actions. Character raises them, matter shapes them, circumstances complete them."
~Tao-Te Ching (Dao-dejing, 51)

Aquarius
Jan 20-Feb 18

You have an inventive mind and are inclined to be progressive . You lie a great deal. On the other hand you are inclined to be careless and impractical causing you to make the same mistakes repeatedly. To the casual observer you appear stupid.
(from bitoffun.com)

"Fool!! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you?" ~Cleopatra vii

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
-James Baldwin

"The pleasure of love is in loving."~Le Rouchefoucauld

"The world is filled with beauty when the heart is filled with love."

"What is bettre than a good womman? Nothyng." ~Chaucer

"Time endures but cannot fade the memories that love has made."

"To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
-Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."
-Albert Ellis

"Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind."
-T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
-Anon.

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights
Whatever stirs this mortal frame
All are but ministers of Love and feed
His sacred flame."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Memories that are shared, are never boring - when retold, or relived.
-Carlo3b, Falling Leaves from the Diary of a Single dad

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
-J. Krishnamurti

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal

"While friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities." ~Helen Keller

"Friendships are only possible when we open the window of our heart and allow the sunshine of someone's life in."

"I divide my life into two periods: "Before Virginia" and "After Virginia." "After Virginia" began in 1972 when we met. Without knowing she was doing so, she fine-tuned my thinking and changed my life completely."

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A Time to Talk by Robert Frost

WHEN a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.