Character Quote by Henry David Thoreau

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their…

— Robert Frost

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose…

— Simon Newcomb

When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they…

— Albert Camus

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

— Rumi

There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—

— Jorie Graham

When you look upon your miseries and hardships..always remember,others out there might be suffering more than you do. And yet...the beautiful things about them…

— Anonymous

Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the…

— Dean Koontz

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one…

— Sophie Swetchine

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by…

— Dean Koontz

“There is a twilight zone in our hearts that we ourselves cannot see. Even when we know quite a lot about ourselves-our gifts and…

— Henri Nouwen