Measure of friendship

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
- Randy K. Milholland -

Kindness

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

- Ettiene De Grellet -

Do not judge men by mere appearances

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
- Edward Chapin -

What is Christmas?

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
- Dale Evans Rogers -

The warmth and joy of Christmas

From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas brings us closer to each other.
- Emily Matthews -

Why is it that our memory ....

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -

The most valuable result of all education....

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

- Thomas H. Huxley -