Month: October 2025

“It’s a funny thing about life. If you refuse to settle for anything less than the best, that’s what it will give you.” – W. Somerset Maugham

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” – Jane Austen

“We do not need to go out and find love; we need to be still and let love discover us.” – John O’Donohue

“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” – Willa Cather, My Antonia

“How we need another soul to cling to.” – Sylvia Plath

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If you would be loved, be lovable.” – Ovid

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.” – Edith Wharton

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anaïs Nin

“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.” – Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light