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ART, FRIENDSHIP, LIFE, FORGIVENESS, DREAMS, TIME and ANGER.
So here they are! PLEASE READ THEM THEY COULD EASILY HELP YOU IN THINGS YOU DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE YOU WERE UPSET OVER! IT MIGHT MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND CHANGE YOUR OPINION TOWARDS SOME THINGS.

ART

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
~Oscar Wilde

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
~Charles Horton Cooley

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
~George Santayana

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
~Thomas Merton

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
~Theodor Adorno

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
~Gustave Flaubert

FRIEFRIENDSHIP
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
~Pam Brown

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
~Leo Buscaglia

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
~Arnold H. Glasow

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
~C. S. Lewis

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~George MacDonald

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~Albert Schweitzer

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
~Joseph Roux

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
~Laurence J. Peter

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
~Thomas A. Edison

LIFE
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
~Anton Chekhov

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~William James

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~Buddha

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
~William Wallace

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
~Robert Frost

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
~Marcus Aurelius

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
~Albert Camus

FORGIVENESS
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
~John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.
~Peter Allen

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
~Suzanne Somers

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
~Indira Gandhi

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
~Gerald Jampolsky

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
~Thomas Fuller

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
~Henry Ward Beecher

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
~William Blake

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Mohandas Gandhi

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
~Bernard Meltzer

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
~Lewis B. Smedes

DREAMS
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
~T. E. Lawrence

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
~Edgar Cayce

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
~Madonna Ciccone

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
~Henry David Thoreau

TIME
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~William Faulkner

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
~George Bernard Shaw

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
~Dion Boucicault

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
~Carl Sandburg

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
~William Penn

ANGER
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
~James Fallows

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
~Albert Einstein

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
~Louis L'Amour

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who angers you conquers you.
~Elizabeth Kenny

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
~Marcus Aurelius

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
~Benjamin Franklin

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
~Confucius