Nicola

Character

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
~ by Vernon Howard

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
~ by Benjamin Disraeli

Friends & Friendship

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
~ by Robert Brault

A really good friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
~ by Reader's Digest

Lust & Passion

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
~ by C.S. Lewis

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
~ by Christian N. Bovee

Let me have wisdom, Beauty, love and passion, Bread to the soul, rain when the summers parch. Give me but these, and though the darkness close, Even the night will blossom as the rose.
~ John Masefield

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; Oh, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
~ by Buddha Gotama

Love

What is Love? A single soul in two bodies.
~ Anonymous

How many times do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are in a silver chain of evening rain unravelled from the trembling main and threading the eye of a yellow star:
So many times do I love again.
~ by Thomas L. Beddoes

If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, it must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
~ by Aphra J. Behn

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
~ Anonymous

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
~ Leo Tolstoy

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds.
~ Samuel Richardson

Love wing'd my Hopes and taught me how to fly.
~ Anonymous

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
~ François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Harmony, Happiness & Optimism

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
~ by James Allen

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
~ by Anonymous

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~ by Charled A. Beard

Melancholy & Sadness

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
~ by Germaine Greer

To be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
~ by Ee Cummings

Liberty & Independence

Voyager upon life's sea: To yourself be true, and whate'er you lot may be, paddle your own canoe.
~ by Dr. Edward P. Philpots