Favorite quotes

"Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them".
Matthias

 

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide

 

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.
David Shore, House M.D., Three Stories, 2004

 

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

 

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X

 

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle

 

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"

 

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

 

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero

 

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero

 

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette, in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961

 

We only do well the things we like doing.
Colette

 

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Colette, The Last of Cheri, 1926

 

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette

 

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb

 

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie

 

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008

 

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones

 

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington (1732 - 1799)

 

All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott