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Love.

"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. " Elizabeth Bowen

 " Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. " Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." Anonymous

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart." Anonymous

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. " James Baldwin

 "Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance. That's why God made love so strong. So it can carry you. All the way home. " Anonymous

"The eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!" Margaret Atwood

 "True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away." Alicia Barnhart

 "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." Victor Hugo

 "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."  James Baldwin

"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The rest will be given. " Mother Teresa

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

"Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
- by Oliver Wendell Holmes -

"Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it." - Robert Mitchum

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde

"A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." - unknown

"In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill Wundram, Iowa Quad Cities Times

 A faithful friend is better than gold. "Anonymous

 " A faithful friend is a medicine for life. "Anonymous

 "For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end." H. L. Mencken (1928)

 "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same." Anonymous

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that." Confucious

"Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me." Gravestone from the 1800s .

 "A true friend says nasty things to your face, instead of saying them behind your back. "Anonymous

 "A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer. "Amanda Gier

 "Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. "Euripedes

 

Quotations about Happiness, Success & Time

Happiness. "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." Henry Miller  "Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves." F. Emerson Andrews  " Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."Madeleine L'Engle  "He who is not grateful for the good things he has would not be happy with what he wished he had. " Anonymous  "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. " Clint Eastwood  "The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself." Publilius Syrus  "Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. "F. Emerson Andrews  " No happy time is really gone, if it leaves a special memory. "Anonymous "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." Anonymous "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." A Scottish Proverb "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." Burton Hills Success.     Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." Herman Cain  "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson  "The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success." Irving Berlin  "The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works." William Strong  "The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed." Lloyd Jones  "He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much." Elbert Hubbard  "They never fail who die in a great cause." George Gordon Byron  "There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. " Chinese Proverb Time.   "One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. " Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams  "Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis. - Times change, and we change with them. "Latin Anonymous, Quoted in Harrison, Description of Britain  "Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and its current is strong; no sooner does anything appear than it is swept away, and another comes in its place, and will be swept away too. " Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations  "There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. "Anatole Broyard  "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. " Theophrastus  "Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity. "Thomas Carlyle  "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. " Sir Winston Churchill  "Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. "Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1809 - 1894)  "What may be done at any time will be done at no time. "Scottish Proverb

Quotations about Life & Knowledge

Life.  " There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. "Anonymous  "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. " Mahatma Gandhi  "Life is a song. Love is the music. " Anonymous  " Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. " Danny Kaye  "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. "Carol Burnett  One of the wonders of life is just that -- the wonder of life. "Anonymous  " A friend is the little prize in the cereal box of life." Anonymous   Knowledge. There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination." Denis Diderot  " We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. "Mark Twain  "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."-Bertrand Russell  " We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. "John A. Wheeler  "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucius  "There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating--people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." Oscar Wilde  "There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. "Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky    " Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds."Khalil Gibran, A Handful of Sand on the Shore