So True

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. --Daniel L. Reardon

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. --George Eliot

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. --Homer

I destroy my enemy by making him my friend. --Abraham Lincoln

Who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story. --Katherine Anne Porter

Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses. --John Goddard

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. --Ursula K. LeGuin