My favourite sayings

Look then into thin heart and write!

~ Longfellow ~

Break, break, break,

On thy cold gay shores, O sea!

And I would that my tongue could offer

The thoughts that arise in me

~ Tennyson ~

To see the world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour

~ William Blake ~

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love

~ Jane Austen - Northhanger Abbey ~

A man's eyes, the manlier they are,

Perceive at last, that there is nothing nobler in them

Than their tears

~ Leigh Hunt ~

Only the dreamer venoms all his days

Bearing more woe than all his sins deserve.

~ John Keats

Who ceases to be a friend

Never was one

The Friendship Book

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.

Walk beside me, and be my friend.

~ Albert Camus ~

Give thy love freely. Do not count the cost.

So beautiful a thing was never lost

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Learn to make the most of life.

Lose no happy day.

Life will never give you back

Chances swept away.

Leave no tender word unsaid,

Love while life shall last,

For the mill can never grind

With water that is past

~ Friendship Book 1988 ~

Take a dream in your heart

And you're there from the start.

Life goes on - you must go on with it

The dream world is the best.

Love is the only everlasting truth,

I lived in love, as I died, loving you.

I was never afraid of loving you,

For love conquers all fear.

The greatest tragedy in life is when hope is obliterated

All people want to be told in this life is that they are loved

~ Jane Windsor ~

Let you mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world,

and all that you have within you and all that your hear desires will surely come to you;

and God himself will come and bend over and catch His own likeness in you.

~ The Friendship Book 1979 ~

I arise from dreams of thee

In the first sweet sleep of night.

When the winds are breathing low,

And the stars are shining bright.

~Percy Shelley ~

Every human relationship should be a glorious rainbow.

~ D H Lawrence

The slightest word of comfort

To help u on our way,

The slightest smile from someone

To brighten up our day.

The slightest act of kindness

To lessen care and such,

All these cost so little,

But they mean so very much

~ Friendship Book 1981 ~

Trust flattering life no more

Redeem times past.

And live each day as if

It were thy last.

~ William Drummond ~

And since love n'er will from me flee

A mistress moderately fair,

And good as guardian-angels are

Only beloved, and loving me

~ Abraham Cowley - The Wish ~

Its hard to smile when you feel lost,

Its harder still to laugh.

But smiling makes the shadows go,

And mirth can smooth your path.

So, dont give up, keep plodding on,

You'll find the right connection.

We need to lose our way, at times,

To choose the best direction.

~ Friendship Book 1982 ~

A good conscience is a soft pillow.

~ Proverb ~

The real measure of our wealth is how much we should be worth if we lost all out money.

~ Friendship Book 1983 ~

When you sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind,

But sigh'st my soul away.

When thou weep'st, unkindly kind

My life's blood doth decay.

~ John Donne - Sweetest Love ~

Seek a friend in sunshine,

Show them that you care.

Seek a friend in shadows

You'll be twice blessed there.

~ Friendship Book 1982 ~

Learning is a way of finding out what you already know.

~ Bach ~

Remember me when I am gone away

Gone far away into the silent land.

~ Christina Rossetti ~

You can never plan the future by the past

~ Edmund Burke ~

Turn the key deftly in the oiled works,

And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul

~John Keats - "To Sleep" ~

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly for you tread on my dreams

~ W B Yeats ~

Contentment is natural wealth;

Luxury is artificial poverty

~ Socrates ~