In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 – 1978)
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women’s names.
Elaine Gill
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904)
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Madonna (1958 – ), O Magazine, January 2004
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Love isn’t a decision. It’s a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
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.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Somewhere There’s someone Who Dreams Of Your smile, And Finds In Your Presence That Life Is Worth While, so When You Are Lonely, Remember It’s True: somebody, somewhere Is Thinking Of You
one day you will love me as i loved you… one day you will think of me as i thought of you… one day you will cry for me like i cried for you… and one day you will want me, but i won’t want you
“Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.”
Christian Nestell Bovee
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days
George Burns
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 – )
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992)
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally ‘Famous’ Amos (1936 – )
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
Franklin P. Adams (1881 – 1960)
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 – 1947)
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 – 1978)
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women’s names.
Elaine Gill
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900), “On Reading and Writing”
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904)
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Madonna (1958 – ), O Magazine, January 2004
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
You can’t love anyone until you understand that you can’t love everyone.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
Love isn’t a decision. It’s a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), “All’s Well That Ends Well”, Act 1 Scene 1
“Πόσο ανάποδα οι άνθρωποι σκέφτονται, εύκολα φεύγουν δύσκολα έρχονται..”
Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
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.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Somewhere There’s someone Who Dreams Of Your smile, And Finds In Your Presence That Life Is Worth While, so When You Are Lonely, Remember It’s True: somebody, somewhere Is Thinking Of You
one day you will love me as i loved you… one day you will think of me as i thought of you… one day you will cry for me like i cried for you… and one day you will want me, but i won’t want you
love is when you don’t wanna go to sleep cause reality is better than a dream