quotes about trust and love

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. ~Mark Epstein



The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth. ~W.R. Koehler, The Koehler Method of Dog Training



What is soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. ~Ray Charles



Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. ~Terri Guillemets



The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"



Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. ~Alfred Kreymborg



The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control. ~Tom Weir



Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. ~George Santayana



If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? ~Aleksander Solzhenitsyn



My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ~Richard Avedon



When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary



Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown



Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. ~Robert S. Wieder



He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?



Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ~James Gibbons Huneker



For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ~Romans 7:19



When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~Bill Balance



We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce



Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand. ~Author Unknown