The story of a love is not important --what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

-- Helen Hayes

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief.

But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

-- Kahlil Gibran

God doesn't always pay you on Friday.

-- Sicilian Proverb

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

-- Felicia Hemans

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be.

-- Jose Ortega y Gasset

If you sleep with a dog you will rise full of fleas.

-- Greek Proverb

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way . . .

-- Isabelle Eberhardt

Life is not a spectacle or a feast, it is a predicament.

-- George Santayana

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

-- Woodrow Wilson

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

-- John Mason Brown

One of the nicest things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

-- Steve Allen

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

-- Sir Thomas Browne

Lecturer, entrepreneur and MBA business consultant, John Harricharan is the author of the award-winning book, "When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat." Spiritual Simplicity The Real Secret http://www.spiritual-simplicity.com/