We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.
from Nicholas Sparks’ “The Notebook” February 25, 2008
…as I watched the sun go down, I remember thinking about that brief, flickering moment when day suddenly turns into night. Dusk, I realized then, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time.
from Nicholas Sparks’ “The Notebook” February 25, 2008
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life.
from Nicholas Sparks’ “The Notebook” February 25, 2008
She didn’t know what his thoughts were exactly, didn’t care really, just knew that they were about her and that was enough.
from Nicholas Sparks’ “The Notebook” February 25, 2008
I am a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Margaret Lee Runbeck February 25, 2008
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
Sebastian Chamfort February 25, 2008
The most wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson February 25, 2008
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with us.
from Peter McMillian’s “Life 101″ February 25, 2008
The more we learn, the more we do. The more we do, the more we learn. But in all this doing and learning, let’s not forget one of the most important lessons of all – enjoyment.
