RuthAnn Roundy-Webb

Quotes

"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure."-Ecclesiasticus 6:14
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."-Sydney J. Harris
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing"-Katherine Mansfield
"I believe that imagination is stronger that knowledge...myth is more potent than history...dreams are more powerful than facts...hope always triumphs over experience...laughter is the cure for grief....love is stronger than death."-Robert Fulghum
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies you the right to grow"-Alice Walker
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful"-Albert Schweitzer
"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature."-Anne Frank
"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story"-Linda Hogan
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."-Anatole France
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist"-Indira Gandhi
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compsassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."-Abraham Joshua Heschel
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves"-Helen Keller
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"-Martin Luther King, Jr.