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Wonderful Quotes

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really would
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.

Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is wroth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

I like her because she smiles at me and means it.

Someone to tell it to is one of the most fundamental needs of human beings.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are.

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.

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.

People change and forget to tell each other.

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

You can't be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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