Love Quotes

Love is friendship set on fire.

~Jeremy Taylor ~

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were
~Anon~

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
~Helen Keller~

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

Where there is love there is life
~Mahatma Gandhi~

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet
~Plato~

Love is a never ending feeling.
~Adeil Prince~

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion
~Javan~

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give - which is everything
~Anon~

What is wrong with our world is that love is in short supply.
~Christopher Bryant~

The courses of true love never did run smooth.
~ William Shakespeare ~

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
~William Shakespeare ~

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~Mother Theresa~

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
~Joseph Conrad~

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
~Anais Nin~

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen ~

The first duty of love is to listen.
~Paul Tillich~

If you open your heart, love opens your mind.
~Charles John Quarto, Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro~

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
~ George Sand ~

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
~David Viscott ~

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller ~

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

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

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
~Og Mandino~

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
~Kyle Schmidt~

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~

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
~ Josiah G. Holland ~

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate,intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
~Amy Bloom ~

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
~Willa Cather~

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~Victor Hugo ~

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her
~Anon~

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life
~Smiley Blanton~

I love you - those three words have my life in them.
~ Alexandrea to Nicholas III ~

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery ~

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
~ Leo Buscaglia ~

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
~ Janos Arany ~

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Ultimately love is everything.
~ M. Scott Peck~

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
~ Woodrow Wyatt ~

Smile at each other, smile at your wife,smile at your husband, smile at your children,smile at each other–it doesn’t matter who it is–and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
~ Mother Teresa ~

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
~P. D. Ouspensky~

Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
~Jeanne Moreau~

The best proof of love is trust
~Joyce Brothers~

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love.’ It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
~Lydia Maria Child~

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~Jean Anouilh~

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
~ Samuel Lover ~

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
~ Leo Buscaglia ~

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
~Leo Buscaglia~

Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
~ Josh Billings ~

Behind every successful man stands an amazed woman
~Anon~

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
~ Ivan Panin ~

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
~W. Somerset Maugham~

Love Conquers All
~Unknown~

If I’m such a legend, why am I so lonely?
~Judy Garland~

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye
~H. Jackson Brown Jr~

A goal, a love and a dream give you total control over your body and your life.
~ John Wayne Schlatter ~

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
~Leo Buscaglia~

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu ~

Love is creation raised to a higher degree.
~Toyohiko Kagawa~

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
~Charles Caleb Colton~

One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
~Sophocles~

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
~Dr. Karl Menninger~

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together
~La Bruyere~

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
~ Ralph Connor ~

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
~J. Krishnamurti~

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain ~

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~Comte DeBussy-Rabutin~

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
~ Thomas Fuller ~

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
~Henry Drummond~

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.
~Erich Fromm~

There is only one terminal dignity — love.
~Helen Hayes~

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
~ Honore de Balzac ~

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish,but that they cease to love.
~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

Love builds bridges where there are none.
~R. H. Delaney~

We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch ~

The art of love … is largely the art of persistence.
~Albert Ellis~

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
~ Pearl S. Buck ~

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well
~John Gray~

All mankind love a lover.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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 it possesses.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are,your simple presence can make others happy.
~Jane Roberts~

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
~ Mother Teresa ~

Love is never having to ask.
~John Gray~

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit
~Kahlil Gibran~

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

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
~David Grayson~

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~Bertrand Russell~

A heart that loves is always young.
~ A Greek Proverb ~

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

Happiness and love are just a choice away.
~ Leo Buscaglia~

When a man loves a woman,periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer
~John Gray~

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
~Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve~
QUOTABLES QUOTES

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
~Milton Berle~

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
~Abigail Van Buren~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)~

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.
~Richard Nixon~

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
~William Blake~

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
~David Eddings~

A friend is a person who knows all about you–and still likes you.
~Elbert Hubbard~

If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
~J. Danforth Quayle~

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~George Bernard Shaw ~

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
~Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)~

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
~Epicetus~

In order to have friends, you must first be one.
~Elbert Hubbard~

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
~ Thomas Otway~

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
~Henry Ward Beecher~

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
~Booker T.Washington

Great thoughts come from the heart.
~Luc de Clapiers~

There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who prosper by the old order.
~ Italo Bombolini~

Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
~Unknown ~

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.
~Samuel Johnson~

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
~ Lord Byron~

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
~ Thomas Dunn English~

More important than how we live is how we spend each day.
~Unknown~

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Why do you take by force that which you could obtain by love?
~Powhatan~

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
~Confucius ( BC 551-479 )~

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do…but how much love we put in that action.
~Mother Teresa~

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
~ Harry F. Banks~

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
~Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)~

For fast acting relief try slowing down.
~ Lily Tomlin~

The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain
~Unknown~

What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love?
~Barbara Sher~

There is no such thing as a self-made man.We are made up of thousands of others.Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success.
~George Matthew Adams~

Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
~Gore Vidal ~

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
~ Mark Twain~

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
~William Shakespeare~

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
~William Shakespeare~

Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
~Jeanne Moreau~

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~William Penn~

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
~Baruch Spinoza~

If you open your heart, love opens your mind.
~Charles John Quarto, Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro~

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about things.
~ W.C.Fields~

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
~Ruskin~

Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde~

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
~ Louis E.Boone~

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
~Joseph Joubert~

Moderation is a fatal thing nothing succeeds like excess.
~Oscar Wilde~

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
~Dale Carnegie~

If you can dream it, you can do it.
~Walt Disney~

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
~Fran Lebowitz ~

When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
~Dr. Joyce Brothers~

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.~

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
~Henry Ford~

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, and then only, are you grown old.
~General Douglas MacArthur~

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
~Benjamin Disraeli~

Who begins too much accomplishes little.
~German Proverb~

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
~Charles de Montesquieu~

We must believe in luck for how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
~ Jean Cocteau~

I can give you a six-word formula for success: “Think things through - then follow through.”
~Edward Rickenbacker~

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
~Herb Caen~

Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.
~Benjamin Franklin~

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
~Cossman ~

Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal.
~ Don Shula~

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
~Dr. Paul Tournier~

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
~ John D. Rockefeller ~

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.
~ Herbert Bayard Swope ~

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
~Thomas R.Dewar~

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
~Mark Twain~

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody’s hand and squeeze it, while there’s time.
~Dale Dauten~

I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often
~Theodore Roosevelt~

Our life is what our thoughts make it
~Marcus Aurelius Antonius~

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
~Stephen Covey~

Hitch your wagon to a star.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Humankind has not woven the web of life.We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.All things are bound together.All things connect.
~ Chief Seattle~

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.
~Blaine Lee~

One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
~Sophocles~

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
~Oswald Spengler~

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
~Storm Jameson~

Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
~ George Lucas(Yoda, Star Wars) ~

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says,”This is the real me,”and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
~William James ~

I’ll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I’m one of the all-time survivors.
~ Jim Kaat~

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~Anais Nin~

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
~Elbert Hubbard~

The authentic self is the soul made visible.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach~

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~Joseph Addison~

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

He who never fell never climbed.
~Unknown~

Without good friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
~Aristotle~

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
~ Annie Dillard~

Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks and courage.
~ Charles Luckman~

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
~Samuel Butler~

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who’s now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that’s what it’s all about after all.
~Anon~

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
~M.W.Little~

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
~Leo Buscaglia~

The worst part of having success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
~Bette Midler~

If we learn for each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then, at the end, we will havefulfilled our potential and performed well.
~Porsche~

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
~Samuel Butler~

Don’t go through life, grow through life.
~ Eric Butterworth~

We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone–but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
~Walter Anderson~

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
~Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, 1964~

What you see depends on what you’re looking for.
~Unknown ~

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
~Albert Einstein~

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
~ Dwight Morrow~

Success is being nothing but a quote.
~ Andy Partridge~

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
~ Elbert Hubbard~

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
~Joe Paterno~

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
~Aristotle~

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~ Albert Einstein~

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
~Aristotle~

Don’t wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
~Harvey Mackay~

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
~From the Apocrypha~

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
~Mother Teresa~

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
~Dag Hammarskjold ~

Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
~Harvey Mackay~

There’s always room at the top.
~Webster~

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge
~Aristotle~

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn
~Friedrich Nietzsche~

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
~ William Shakespeare~

There is a time in the tides of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to success. On the other hand, don’t count on it.
~ T.K.Lawson~

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
~Victor Borge~

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

No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven.
~Ruth Sheppard~

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
~Anon~

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished
~Og Mandino~

Success, as I see it, is a result, not a goal.
~George Flaubert~

If you judge people, you have no time to love them
~Mother Theresa~

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
~Marcel Marceau~

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
~Peter Marshall~

No man is an island, entire of itself;every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main.
~ John Donne~

Work and love–these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
~ Theodor Reik~

He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
~ English Proverb~

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all–friends?
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
~ Donald Riggs~

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
~Samuel Johnson~

Success is more attitude then aptitude.
~Unknown~

Man errs as long as he strives.
~Goethe~

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.
~ Elbert Hubbard~

Came but for friendship, and took away love.
~Thomas Moore~

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
~Rosalind Russel~

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin’ that they seem indispensable.
~Kin Hubbard~

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
~ John Lyly ~

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
~Henry David Thoreau~

If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero
~ David Ellis~

Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.
~Chinese Proverb~

To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.
~Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.~

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
~William Penn~

We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.
~Samuel Johnson~

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
~Samuel Johnson~

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~Aristotle~

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
~Coco Chanel ~

Marriage is not a ritual or an end.It is a long, intricate,intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance
and your choice of partner.
~Amy Bloom~

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
~ Sir Walter Scott ~

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
~Martin Luther~

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value
~ Albert Einstein~

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
~Joan Borysenko, Ph.D~

What you are comes to you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

If a man is happy in his work exerting himself to the full extent of his capabilities, and enjoying it I’d say he’s a success.
~ William Romain~

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
~Richard Bach~

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
~ Max Beerbohm~

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
~Xenophon~

Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.
~Archimedes~

The adult looks to deed, the child to love.
~Hindustani Proverb~

Marriage is a relationship. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
~Joseph Campbell~

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
~William Shakespeare (All’s Well that Ends Well)~

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~

Joys divided are increased.
~Josiah Gilbert Holland~

Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.
~ William Feather~

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
~ Kahlil Gibran~

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
~ Doris Mortman ~

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

A man’ deepest fear is that he is noot good enough or that he’s incompetent
~ John Gray~

Stability is more essential to success than brilliance.
~ Richard Lloyd Jones~

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Perdamaian tidak dapat dijaga dengan kekuatan. Hal itu hanya dapat diraih dengan pengertian. Einstein

Agama sejati adalah hidup yang sesungguhnya; hidup dengan seluruh jiwa seseorang, dengan seluruh kebaikan dan kebajikan seseorang. Einstein

Dua hal yang membangkitkan ketakjuban saya - langit bertaburkan bintang di atas dan alam semesta yang penuh hikmah di dalamnya. Einstein

Apa yang saya saksikan di Alam adalah sebuah tatanan agung yang tidak dapat kita pahami dengan sangat tidak menyeluruh, dan hal itu sudah semestinya menjadikan seseorang yang senantiasa berpikir dilingkupi perasaan "rendah hati." Einstein

Sungguh sedikit mereka yang melihat dengan mata mereka sendiri dan merasakan dengan hati mereka sendiri. Einstein

Berusahalah untuk tidak menjadi manusia yang berhasil tapi berusahalah menjadi manusia yang berguna. Einstein

Tidak semua yang dapat menghitung dapat dihitung, dan tidak semua yang dapat dihitung dapat menghitung. Einstein

Kata-kata Bijak (2)

• Takut akan kegagalan seharusnya tidak menjadi alasan untuk tidak mencoba sesuatu.
  
• Kepemimpinan adalah Anda sendiri dan apa yang Anda lakukan.
  
• Kejujuran adalah batu penjuru dari segala kesuksesan, Pengakuan adalah motivasi terkuat. Bahkan kritik dapat membangun rasa percaya diri saat "disisipkan" di antara pujian.
  
• Jika Anda dapat memimpikannya, Anda dapat melakukannnya.
  
• Uang merupakan hamba yang sangat baik, tetapi tuan yang sangat buruk. Sumber kekuatan baru bukanlah uang yang berada dalam genggaman tangan beberapa orang, namun informasi di tangan orang banyak.
  
• Jenius adalah 1 % inspirasi dan 99 % keringat. Tidak ada yang dapat menggantikan kerja keras.
• Keberuntungan adalah sesuatu yang terjadi ketika kesempatan bertemu dengan kesiapan.
  
• Ketika satu pintu tertutup, pintu lain terbuka; namun terkadang kita melihat dan menyesali pintutertutup tersebut terlalu lama hingga kita tidak melihat pintu lain yang telah terbuka.
  
• Jangan biarkan jati diri menyatu dengan pekerjaan Anda. Jika pekerjaan Anda lenyap, jati diri Anda tidak akan pernah hilang.
  
• Hari ini Anda adalah orang yang sama dengan Anda di lima tahun mendatang, kecuali dua hal : orang-orang di sekeliling Anda dan buku-buku yang Anda baca. Kebahagiaan biasanya merupakan hasil dari sebuah pengorbanan.

Kata-kata Bijak (1)

Anda adalah produk dari lingkungan anda. Maka, pilihlah lingkungan yang terbaik bagi pengembangan anda menuju tujuan-tujuan anda. Analisalah hidup anda melalui lingkungan anda. Apakah hal-hal yang disekitar anda membantu anda menuju sukses atau malah menahan anda? (W. Clement Stone)

Jangan pernah berpisah tanpa ungkapan kasih sayang untuk dikenang. Mungkin saja perpisahan itu ternyata untuk selamanya. (Jean Paul Richter)

Maut bukanlah kehilangan terbesar dalam hidup. Kehilangan yang terbesar adalah apa yang mati dalam sanubari sementara kita masih hidup. (Norman Cousins)

Kegagalan adalah satu-satunya kesempatan untuk memulai lagi dengan lebih cerdik. (Henry Ford)

Ada yang mengukur hidup mereka dari hari dan tahun. Yang lain dengan denyut jantung, gairah, dan air mata. Tetapi ukuran sejati di bawah mentari adalah apa yang telah engkau lakukan dalam hidup ini untuk orang lain. (Confucius)

Hidup dengan melakukan kesalahan akan tampak lebih terhormat daripada selalu benar karena tidak pernah melakukan apa-apa. (George Bernard Shaw)

Kebencian atau dendam tidak menyakiti orang yang tidak Anda sukai. Tetapi setiap hari dan setiap malam dalam kehidupan Anda, perasaan itu menggerogoti Anda. (Norman Vincent Peale)

Saat salah satu pintu kebahagiaan tertutup, pintu yang lain terbuka. Hanya seringkali kita terpaku begitu lama pada pintu yang tertutup sehingga tak melihat yang telah terbuka untuk kita. (Helen Keller)

Kita diberitahu bahwa bakat menciptakan kesempatan-kesempatan, tetapi terkadang kelihatan bahwa hasrat yang kuat bukan saja menciptakan kesempatan-kesempatan, namun juga bakat-bakat. (Eric Hoffer)

Apapun fakta yang ada di depan kita tidak lebih penting dari pada sikap kita dalam menghadapinya, karena itulah yang menentukan keberhasilan atau kegagalan kita. (Norman Vincent Peale)

Bukalah mata sewaktu berjalan, karena bisa saja kita akan bertemu dengan kesempatan. Adapun kesempatan itu sendiri buta. Peganglah erat-erat, karena kesempatan datang dan pergi tanpa memberitahu. (Anonim)

Jika kita memulainya dengan kepastian, kita akan berakhir dalam keraguan; tetapi jika kita memulainya dengan keraguan, dan bersabar menghadapinya, kita akan berakhir dalam kepastian. (Francis Bacon)

Orang-orang menjadi begitu luar biasa ketika mereka mulai berpikir bahwa mereka bisa melakukan sesuatu. Saat mereka percaya pada diri mereka sendiri, mereka memiliki rahasia kesuksesan yang pertama. (Norman Vincent Peale)

Tak ada rahasia untuk menggapai sukses. Sukses itu dapat terjadi karena persiapan, kerja keras, dan mau belajar dari kegagalan. (Gen. Collin Powell)

Kebahagiaan tertinggi dalam kehidupan adalah kepastian bahwa anda dicintai seperti apa adanya, atau lebih tepatnya dicintai walaupun anda seperti diri anda adanya. (Victor Hugo)

Seorang pecundang tak tahu apa yang akan dilakukannya bila kalah, tetapi sesumbar apa yang akan dilakukannya bila menang. Sedangkan, pemenang tidak berbicara apa yang akan dilakukannya bila ia menang, tetapi tahu apa yang akan dilakukannya bila kalah. (Eric Berne)

Jangan lihat masa lampau dengan penyesalan; jangan pula lihat masa depan dengan ketakutan tapi lihatlah sekitarmu dengan penuh kesadaran. (James Thurber)

Kegagalan dapat dibagi menjadi dua sebab. Yakni, orang yang berpikir tapi tidak pernah bertindak, dan orang yang bertindak tapi tidak pernah berpikir. (W.A. Nance)

Urusan kita dalam kehidupan ini bukanlah untuk mendahului orang lain, tetapi untuk melampaui diri kita sendiri, untuk memecahkan rekor kita sendiri, dan untuk melampaui hari kemarin dengan hari ini. (Stuart B.Johnson)

Ada dua cara untuk menjalani hidup ini dengan mudah, percaya pada segala sesuatu atau meragukan segala sesuatu; kedua cara tersebut membebaskan kita dari berpikir. (Theodore Rubin)

Seorang pemimpin adalah orang yang melihat lebih banyak daripada yang dilihat orang lain, melihat lebih jauh daripada yang dilihat orang lain, dan melihat sebelum orang lain melihat. (Leroy Eims)

Dan bahwa setiap pengalaman mestilah dimasukkan ke dalam kehidupan, guna memperkaya kehidupan itu sendiri. Karena tiada kata akhir untuk belajar seperti juga tiada kata akhir untuk kehidupan. (Annemarie Schimmel)

Kita harus saling memaafkan dan kemudian melupakan apa yang telah kita maafkan. (Andrew Jackson)

Jangan biarkan orang lain mempengaruhi ide dan keputusan anda. Dalam lima tahun ke depan, andalah - bukan mereka - yang harus hidup dengan pilihan yang telah anda buat. (Sarah Brklacich)

Saya telah mempelajari kehidupan pria-pria besar dan wanita- wanita terkenal, dan saya menemukan bahwa mereka yang mencapai puncak keberhasilan adalah mereka yang melakukan pekerjaan- pekerjaan yang ada di hadapan mereka dengan segenap tenaga, semangat, dan kerja keras. (Harry S.Truman)

Kita datang ke dunia ini sendiri, dan sendiri pula kita meninggalkannya. Di antara pintu masuk dan pintu keluar, kita menghabiskan waktu kita untuk mencari persahabatan. (E.M. Dooling)

Kita adalah apa yang kita kerjakan berulang kali. Dengan demikian, kecemerlangan bukan tindakan, tetapi kebiasaan. (Aristoteles)

Kebahagiaan anda tumbuh berkembang manakala anda membantu orang lain. Namun, bilamana anda tidak mencoba membantu sesama, kebahagiaan akan layu dan mengering. Kebahagiaan bagaikan sebuah tanaman, harus disirami setiap hari dengan sikap dan tindakan memberi. (J.Donald Walters)

Sebagian orang mengatakan kesempatan hanya datang satu kali. Itu tidak benar. Kesempatan itu selalu datang, tetapi anda harus siap menanggapinya. (Louis L’amour)

Cinta tidak pernah meminta

Cinta tidak pernah meminta, ia senantiasa memberi, cinta membawa penderitaan, tetapi tidak pernah berdendam, tak pernah membalas dendam. Di mana ada cinta di situ ada kehidupan; manakala kebencian membawa kepada kemusnahan.~ Mahatma Ghandi

Tuhan memberi kita dua kaki untuk berjalan, dua tangan untuk memegang, dua telinga untuk mendengar dan dua mata untuk melihat. Tetapi mengapa Tuhan hanya menganugerahkan sekeping hati pada kita? Karena Tuhan telah memberikan sekeping lagi hati pada seseorang untuk kita mencarinya. Itulah namanya Cinta.

Ada dua tetes air mata mengalir di sebuah sungai. Satu tetes air mata tu menyapa air mata yang satu lagi,” Saya air mata seorang gadis yang mencintai seorang lelaki tetapi telah kehilangannya. Siapa kamu pula?”. Jawab tetes air mata kedua itu,” Saya air mata seorang lelaki yang menyesal membiarkan seorang gadis yang mencintai saya berlalu begitu sahaja.”

Cinta sejati adalah ketika dia mencintai orang lain, dan kamu masih mampu tersenyum, sambil berkata: aku turut bahagia untukmu.

Jika kita mencintai seseorang, kita akan sentiasa mendoakannya walaupun dia tidak berada di sisi kita.

Jangan sesekali mengucapkan selamat tinggal jika kamu masih mau mencoba. Jangan sesekali menyerah jika kamu masih merasa sanggup. Jangan sesekali mengatakan kamu tidak mencintainya lagi jika kamu masih tidak dapat melupakannya.

Perasaan cinta itu dimulai dari mata, sedangkan rasa suka dimulai dari telinga. Jadi jika kamu mau berhenti menyukai seseorang, cukup dengan menutup telinga. Tapi apabila kamu Coba menutup matamu dari orang yang kamu cintai, cinta itu berubah menjadi tetesan air mata dan terus tinggal di hatimu dalam jarak waktu yang cukup lama.

Cinta datang kepada orang yang masih mempunyai harapan walaupun mereka telah dikecewakan. Kepada mereka yang masih percaya, walaupun mereka telah dikhianati. Kepada mereka yang masih ingin mencintai, walaupun mereka telah disakiti sebelumnya dan kepada mereka yang mempunyai keberanian dan keyakinan untuk membangunkan kembali kepercayaan.

Jangan simpan kata-kata cinta pada orang yang tersayang sehingga dia meninggal dunia , lantaran akhirnya kamu terpaksa catatkan kata-kata cinta itu pada pusaranya . Sebaliknya ucapkan kata-kata cinta yang tersimpan di benakmu itu sekarang selagi ada hayatnya.

Mungkin Tuhan menginginkan kita bertemu dan bercinta dengan orang yang salah sebelum bertemu dengan orang yang tepat, kita harus mengerti bagaimana berterima kasih atas kurniaan itu.

Cinta bukan mengajar kita lemah, tetapi membangkitkan kekuatan. Cinta bukan mengajar kita menghinakan diri, tetapi menghembuskan kegagahan. Cinta bukan melemahkan semangat, tetapi membangkitkan semangat -Hamka

Cinta dapat mengubah pahit menjadi manis, debu beralih emas, keruh menjadi bening, sakit menjadi sembuh, penjara menjadi telaga, derita menjadi nikmat, dan kemarahan menjadi rahmat.

Sungguh menyakitkan mencintai seseorang yang tidak mencintaimu, tetapi lebih menyakitkan adalah mencintai seseorang dan kamu tidak pernah memiliki keberanian untuk menyatakan cintamu kepadanya.

Hal yang menyedihkan dalam hidup adalah ketika kamu bertemu seseorang yang sangat berarti bagimu. Hanya untuk menemukan bahawa pada akhirnya menjadi tidak bererti dan kamu harus membiarkannya pergi.

Kamu tahu bahwa kamu sangat merindukan seseorang, ketika kamu memikirkannya hatimu hancur berkeping.
Dan hanya dengan mendengar kata “Hai” darinya, dapat menyatukan kembali kepingan hati tersebut.

Tuhan ciptakan 100 bagian kasih sayang. 99 disimpan disisinya dan hanya 1 bagian diturunkan ke dunia. Dengan kasih sayang yang satu bagian itulah, makhluk saling berkasih sayang sehingga kuda mengangkat kakinya kerana takut anaknya terpijak.

Kadangkala kamu tidak menghargai orang yang mencintai kamu sepenuh hati, sehinggalah kamu kehilangannya. Pada saat itu, tiada guna sesalan karena perginya tanpa berpatah lagi.

Jangan mencintai seseorang seperti bunga, kerana bunga mati kala musim berganti. Cintailah mereka seperti sungai, kerana sungai mengalir selamanya.

Cinta mampu melunakkan besi, menghancurkan batu, membangkitkan yang mati dan meniupkan kehidupan padanya serta membuat budak menjadi pemimpin. Inilah dasyatnya cinta !

Permulaan cinta adalah membiarkan orang yang kamu cintai menjadi dirinya sendiri, dan tidak merubahnya menjadi gambaran yang kamu inginkan. Jika tidak, kamu hanya mencintai pantulan diri sendiri yang kamu temukan di dalam dirinya.

Cinta itu adalah perasaan yang mesti ada pada tiap-tiap diri manusia, ia laksana setitis embun yang turun dari langit,bersih dan suci. Cuma tanahnyalah yang berlain-lainan menerimanya. Jika ia jatuh ke tanah yang tandus,tumbuhlah oleh kerana embun itu kedurjanaan, kedustaan, penipu, langkah serong dan lain-lain perkara yang tercela. Tetapi jika ia jatuh kepada tanah yang subur,di sana akan tumbuh kesuciaan hati, keikhlasan, setia budi pekerti yang tinggi dan lain-lain perangai yang terpuji.~ Hamka

Kata-kata cinta yang lahir hanya sekadar di bibir dan bukannya di hati mampu melumatkan seluruh jiwa raga, manakala kata-kata cinta yang lahir dari hati yang ikhlas mampu untuk mengubati segala luka di hati orang yang mendengarnya.

Kamu tidak pernah tahu bila kamu akan jatuh cinta. namun apabila sampai saatnya itu, raihlah dengan kedua tanganmu,dan jangan biarkan dia pergi dengan sejuta rasa tanda tanya dihatinya

Cinta bukanlah kata murah dan lumrah dituturkan dari mulut ke mulut tetapi cinta adalah anugerah Tuhan yang indah dan suci jika manusia dapat menilai kesuciannya.

Bukan laut namanya jika airnya tidak berombak. Bukan cinta namanya jika perasaan tidak pernah terluka. Bukan kekasih namanya jika hatinya tidak pernah merindu dan cemburu.

Bercinta memang mudah. Untuk dicintai juga memang mudah. Tapi untuk dicintai oleh orang yang kita cintai itulah yang sukar diperoleh.

Satu-satunya cara agar kita memperolehi kasih sayang, ialah jangan menuntut agar kita dicintai, tetapi mulailah memberi kasih sayang kepada orang lain tanpa mengharapkan balasan. (Dale Carnagie)