happy valentines day quotes for a friend

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. ~George MacDonald



Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain



Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. ~Jean Kerr, Mary, Mary, 1960



Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~Maurice Chevalier



Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ~Author Unknown



The finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end. ~Laurence Malone, about bicycle racing



It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ~George Santayana



You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970



In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer



To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown



Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern



The great sea makes one a great sceptic. ~Richard Jefferies



It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron



We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. ~John F. Kennedy



Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. ~Jules Renard



To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness



As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. ~Erma Bombeck



The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. ~Bertrand Russell