Quote:	Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.
Author:	Dale Dauten
Source:	His nationally syndicated column which appeared in the 4/16/98 Arizona Republic.

Quote:	I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or ablities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Author:	William Penn
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Author:	Greg Anderson
Source:	The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness

Quote:	Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.
Author:	Dale Dauten
Source:	'Charming the brain may allow changes' by Dale Dauten (Arizona Republic 1/7/99)

Quote:	When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Author:	Greg Anderson
Source:	The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness

Quote:	Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Author:	Stephen Covey
Source:	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Quote:	Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Author:	Stephen Covey
Source:	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Quote:	Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Author:	Stephen Covey
Source:	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Quote:	The Art of Peace begins with you...Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all you encounter.
Author:	Morihei Ueshiba
Source:	The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba

Quote:	Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Author:	Norman Vincent Peale
Source:	Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale

Quote:	Without good friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	What is wrong with our world is that love is in short supply.
Author:	Christopher Bryant
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Author:	Margaret Atwood
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Author:	from the Apocrypha
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Author:	Mother Teresa
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Author:	Victor Borge
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.
Author:	Tom Hannah
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
Author:	John Donne
Source:	Body, Mind, and Spirit: Daily Meditations edited by Kristen Ison

Quote:	No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven.
Author:	Ruth Sheppard
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Author:	Dale Carnegie
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Author:	Abigail Van Buren
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Quote:	A friend is a person who knows all about you--and still likes you.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook

Quote:	Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook

Quote:	A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	Body, Mind and Spirit

Quote:	We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone--but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Author:	Walter Anderson
Source:	The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment by Walter Anderson

Quote:	Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). Negative thoughts (judgement, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).
Author:	Peter McWilliams
Source:	You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought by Peter McWilliams

Quote:	Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Author:	Harvey Mackay
Source:	Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column

Quote:	Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Author:	Harvey Mackay
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Author:	Samuel Butler
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.
Author:	Samuel Butler
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Author:	Samuel Butler
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Author:	Samuel Butler in The Way of All Flesh
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all--friends?
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	What you are comes to you.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Quote:	The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Author:	Xenophon
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.
Author:	Benjamin Franklin
Source:	Jump Start Your Brain by Doug Hall

Quote:	What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Author:	Epicetus
Source:	Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! by Eric Allenbaugh

Quote:	We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
Author:	Red Cloud
Source:	A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations by Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Quote:	Why do you take by force that which you could obtain by love?
Author:	Powhatan
Source:	A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations by Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Quote:	We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
Author:	Thomas Moore, PhD, in the essay "Embracing the Everyday"
Source:	Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield

Quote:	Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.
Author:	Mother Teresa
Source:	Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard

Quote:	We live by admiration, hope and love.
Author:	William Wordsworth
Source:	Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard

Quote:	Great thoughts come from the heart.
Author:	Luc de Clapiers
Source:	Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard

Quote:	The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard

Quote:	Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.
Author:	Samuel Johnson
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living!
Author:	Amanda Bradley
Source:	Slowing Down in a Speeded Up World by Adair Lara

Quote:	The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Quote:	Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Quote:	The adult looks to deed, the child to love.
Author:	Hindustani proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Author:	Francis Bacon
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Fair words never hurt the tongue.
Author:	George Chapman
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	They do not love that do not show their love.
Author:	William Shakespeare (The Two Gentlemen from Verona)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	Love all, trust a few; Do wrong to none.
Author:	William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Author:	William Shakespeare (All's Well that Ends Well)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Author:	William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	Things past redress are now with me past care.
Author:	William Shakespeare (King Richard II)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life.
Author:	MacRina Wiederkehr
Source:	A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary by MacRina Wiederkehr

Quote:	If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Author:	1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13
Source:	Holy Bible

Quote:	The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	We must have infinite faith in each other.
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.
Author:	Emily Hilburn Sell
Source:	The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honours, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honourable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
Author:	Plato
Source:	The Spirit of Loving by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. Love, and you will know the blessings of it. Keep away from the authority who tells you what love is and what it is not. No authority knows and he who knows cannot tell. Love, and there is understanding.
Author:	Krishnamurti
Source:	The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Author:	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Source:	The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	Love is not what we become but who we already are.
Author:	Stephen Levine
Source:	The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. This theory believes that love is a magical force which frees us from all suffering and solves every problem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent, there may be some truths to each of these beliefs, but having the capacity to love is not the same as having the ability to love.
Author:	Leo Buscaglia
Source:	Born for Love: Reflections on Loving by Leo F. Buscaglia

Quote:	Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
Author:	Leo Buscaglia
Source:	Born for Love: Reflections on Loving by Leo F. Buscaglia

Quote:	Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.
Author:	Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, from The Maid's Tragedy
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Sometimes we are to guard our heart...protect it from invasion and keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart...let certain qualities out and release them to others.
Author:	Charles Swindoll
Source:	The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ by Charles Swindoll

Quote:	I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
Author:	Dr. Paul Tournier
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Author:	George Eliot
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	Look at people; recognize them, accept them as they are, without wanting to change them.
Author:	Helen Beginton
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
Author:	John 13:34
Source:	Holy Bible

Quote:	Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Author:	Henry David Thoreau
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	This is the precious present, regardless of what yesterday was like, regardless of what tomorrow may bring. When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go. When the heart of your heart opens, you can take deep pleasure in the company of the people around you--family, friends, acquaintances, or strangers--including those whose characters are less than perfect, just as your character is less than perfect. When you are open to the beauty, mystery, and grandeur of ordinary existence, you "get it" that it always has been beautiful, mysterious, and grand and always will be. This is the precious present.
Author:	Timothy Ray Miller
Source:	How to Want What You Have: Discovering the Magic and Grandeur of Ordinary Existence by Timothy Ray Miller

Quote:	It is foolish to postpone enjoyment of your ordinary life until you are more successful, more secure, or more loved than you are today.
Author:	Timothy Ray Miller
Source:	How to Want What You Have: Discovering the Magic and Grandeur of Ordinary Existence by Timothy Ray Miller

Quote:	The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Author:	Joseph Addison
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (editor)

Quote:	To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done--this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Author:	Thomas Dekker
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Quote:	An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant.
Author:	Thomas Moore
Source:	The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore

Quote:	Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Author:	Helen Keller
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner

Quote:	My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
Author:	Helen Keller
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again--this is the brave and happy life.
Author:	J.E. Buchrose
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
Author:	John Sutherland Bonnell
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Author:	Charles de Montesquieu
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.
Author:	Hilaire Belloc
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Author:	Storm Jameson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	Where there is no antagonist, you cannot quarrel.
Author:	Japanese proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	Love is a verb.
Author:	Clare Boothe Luce
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.
Author:	Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Source:	The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Quote:	The authentic self is the soul made visible.
Author:	Sarah Ban Breathnach
Source:	Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Quote:	A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Author:	Joseph Joubert
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so.'
Author:	Lord Byron
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	Work and love--these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Author:	Theodor Reik
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love?
Author:	Barbara Sher
Source:	Live the Life You Love: In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons by Barbara Sher

Quote:	Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Author:	Nelson Rockefeller
Source:	1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said by Robert Byrne

Quote:	Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Author:	Jeanne Moreau
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner

Quote:	Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Author:	Jesus Christ, quoting scripture (Leviticus 19:18)
Source:	Matthew 19:19

Quote:	If you open your heart, love opens your mind.
Author:	Charles John Quarto, Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro
Source:	"Open your heart" performed by Lowen & Navarro on their album Broken Moon.

Quote:	How should one live? Live Welcoming to all.
Author:	Mechthild von Magdeburg
Source:	"Live Welcoming to All" by Sue Monk Kidd, which appeared in the September/October 1997 Weavings.

Quote:	Joys divided are increased.
Author:	Josiah Gilbert Holland
Source:	Franklin Seasons Planner, September 8, 1993

Quote:	A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Author:	William Penn
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
Author:	William Penn
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into conciousness the shadow side of our lives. Coversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.
Author:	Elizabeth O'Connor
Source:	Our Many Selves: A Handbook for Self-Discovery by Elizabeth O'Connor

Quote:	The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Author:	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source:	Power Quotes by Daniel B. Baker

Quote:	Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
Author:	King Solomon
Source:	Proverbs 11:17 (The Living Bible)

Quote:	In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, and then only, are you grown old.
Author:	General Douglas MacArthur
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	Do the things You believe in In the name of love And know that You aren't alone We all have doubts and fears.
Author:	Carole King
Source:	You've Got a Friend: Poetic Selections from the Songs of Carole King

Quote:	If our spirituality, no matter how disciplined, lofty and inspiring, is making us less warmly human, more detached, suspicious of our human 'feelings, emotions, and passions,' then something has gone seriously wrong.
Author:	Flora Slosson Wuellner
Source:	'Reach out your hand, and put it in my side' Flora Slosson Wuellner, Weavings, September/October 1998

Quote:	Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Author:	Jean Anouilh
Source:	The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations

Quote:	..life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve. Live is always movement, always change, always unforeseen circumstances. There will always be something to grab your attention...Let's just acknowledge that as far as real life is concerned, we are only one step away from dealing with dysfunction. ...Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities.
Author:	Sarah Ban Breathnach
Source:	Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Quote:	When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Author:	Dr. Joyce Brothers
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that live.
Author:	Mme. de Stael
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
Author:	Bessie Head
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet--each of us in our own way.
Author:	Bernie Siegel, MD
Source:	Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield

Quote:	To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
Author:	Bernie Siegel
Source:	Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield

Quote:	When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.
Author:	Blaine Lee
Source:	The Power Principle: Influence with Honor by Blaine Lee

Quote:	One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Author:	Sophocles
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	The main fact of life for me is love or its absence. Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
Author:	R.D. Laing
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Author:	Victor Hugo
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. If the individual is not sensitive, how can his love be sentient? If he is not profound, how can his love be deep? As one is, so is his love?
Author:	Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
Author:	Dr. Karl Menninger
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	Happiness and love are just a choice away.
Author:	Leo Buscaglia
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	To fear love is to fear life.
Author:	Bertrand Russell
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are...your simple presence can make others happy.
Author:	Jane Roberts
Source:	Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell

Quote:	You've touched people and know it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, no matter what your life feels like to you right now, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each one of our lives becomes meaningful.
Author:	Laura Schlessinger
Source:	"In quiet way, one can impact other's lives" by Dr. Laura Schlessinger, a column which appeared in the 11/10/98 Arizona Republic.

Quote:	The first duty of love is to listen.
Author:	Paul Tillich
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sunshine shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend.
Author:	Traditional Irish blessing
Source:	A Grateful Heart edited by M.J. Ryan

Quote:	Where there is great love there are always miracles.
Author:	Willa Cather
Source:	Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Quote:	Ultimately love is everything.
Author:	M. Scott Peck
Source:	The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck

Quote:	When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.
Author:	M. Scott Peck
Source:	The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck

Quote:	Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near.
Author:	Isaiah 57:19
Source:	Holy Bible

Quote:	Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
Author:	Leo Buscaglia
Source:	Born for Love: Reflections on Loving by Leo F. Buscaglia

Quote:	Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
Author:	Leo Buscaglia
Source:	Born for Love: Reflections on Loving by Leo F. Buscaglia

Quote:	The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
Author:	W. Somerset Maugham
Source:	Born for Love: Reflections on Loving by Leo F. Buscaglia

Quote:	...while every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
Author:	Erich Fromm
Source:	The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Author:	Rabbi Harold Kushner
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Author:	Mary Roberts Rinehart
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	If I'm such a legend, why am I so lonely?
Author:	Judy Garland
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
Author:	English proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	Marriage is a relationship. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Author:	Joseph Campbell
Source:	The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers

Quote:	...you get appreciation by giving it.
Author:	Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner
Source:	Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at their Worst by Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner

Quote:	Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Author:	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source:	The Portable Coleridge

Quote:	...beauty has its own heavenly language, loftier than the voices of tongues and lips. It is a timeless language, common to all humanity, a calm lake that attracts the singing rivulets to its depth and makes them silent. Only our spirits can understand beauty, or live and grow with it. It puzzles our minds; we are unable to describe it in words; it is a sensation that our eyes cannot see, derived from both the one who observes and the one who is looked upon. Real beauty is a ray which emanates from the holy of holies of the spirit, and illuminates the body, as life comes from the depths of the earth and gives color and scent to a flower. Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
Author:	Kahlil Gibran
Source:	The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran

Quote:	Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
Author:	Kahlil Gibran
Source:	The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran

Quote:	Ordinary life, our earthly existence, is often dull. Romance is exciting. Our moments of romance are those when a little bit of heaven seems, thank God, to impinge, to intrude upon our daily lives. I learn for such moments. It is because I yearn for them so much that I generally feel this earth is not my home. The yearning is particularly intense when I am bored for any length of time. I want to go home. Heaven is the home of God. For years I have known that my only real romance is with God. I want to be with God. I want to be in his or her arms where I belong, and I hope I shall be when I die. But I am not ready to go home yet, and God does not come to me often. Certainly never on demand. She has Her own schedule. Her timing is not my timing, and I must content myself with that. I am not so good at being content, however, that I do not look forward to substitutes, even if they be but shadows of the real thing...
Author:	M. Scott Peck
Source:	In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason, and Discovery by M. Scott Peck

Quote:	Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.
Author:	Chinese proverb
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	Love is creation raised to a higher degree.
Author:	Toyohiko Kagawa
Source:	The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
Author:	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Source:	The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
Author:	P. D. Ouspensky
Source:	The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. That is,... all that is beautiful and sublime and the world takes part in the beauty of what one loves, and this unexpected glimpse of happiness immediately fills the eyes with tears. This is how love of the beautiful and love give each other life.
Author:	Stendhal
Source:	The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell

Quote:	He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses.
Author: