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Love Quotes
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
William Butler Yeats
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them.
JD Salinger
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Lisa Simpson
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Jesus
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
William Shakespeare
I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Friendship Quotes
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
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
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong.
Mark Twain
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
Ani Difranco
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight David Eisenhower
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
A.A. Milne
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
Shakespeare
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
Wisdom Quotes
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Plato
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Marcus Aurelius
Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
William Butler Yeats
Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.
Calvin Coolidge
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Mark Twain
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success Quotes
Rise early. Work Late. Strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison
Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I used to work at the International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.
Paula Poundstone
A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody Allen
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
Imagination Quotes
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
William Somerset Maugham
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Other Quotes
Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Still achieving still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do what you can, with what you have, with where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Indira Gandhi
Men are all alike in their promise. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
Moliere
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith
Poetry is not an assertion of the truth, but the making of that truth more real to us.
T.S. Eliot
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.
Johnny Carson
When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.
Anias Nin
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli
I have great faith in fools – self-confidence, my friends call it.
Edgar Allen Poe
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil
I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.
Paul McCartney
There’s only one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says “Yes,” you know he’s a crook.
Groucho Marx
Life’s experiments are great fun. This is but another one.
Rudyard Kipling
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