“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

George Bernard Shaw

 ”Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

The Dalai Lama

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Children
Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

“Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without words and never stops at all.”

-Emily Dickinson

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”

~Luciano de Crescenzo

The Kiss- Rodin, Auguste

“A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson