Quotes

Jan 09, 2005 17:31


I was bored and looking around and i found this one good website with really good quotes to me so i decided to put some on here.


*Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for
*"As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
*The one who loves the least, controls the relationship
*"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
*"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

*"Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow."
*"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
"Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis  (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)"
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
"If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness."

"We like someone because. We love someone although."
"If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them."
"By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible."

"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you."

"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
"Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself."
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."

"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."
"Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much."
"You're the one I love to love, hate to hate, love to hate and hate to love."

"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you."
"The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it."
*"Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed."
*"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."

*"There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be."

"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too."

"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy."

"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."

"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
"I love those who yearn for the impossible."
"Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame."
"The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.'
"Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, than one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found someone you truly love, only to figure out, he doesn't love you back. You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, and what they have made you become.

Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes, you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There's always tomorrow."
"Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice."
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."

"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals."
"A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you."
"If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it."
"You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else."
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

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