One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Miguel de Unamuno

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Peter Drucker

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

William Shakespeare

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

Source Unknown

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

Howard Nemerov

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Phyllis McGinley

The earth loveth the shower, and the holy ether knoweth what love is. The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

Marcus Aurelius

What these people were trying to create or re-create here in this new world is beyond me. I can't put myself in their minds or their hearts, but I can sympathize with their struggle for an identity, with their puzzlement, which has troubled Americans from the very beginning - Who are we, where do we fit in, where are we going?

Nelson Demille

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Doug Horton

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frederick (Carl) Frieseke

It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Jackie Joyner Kersee