PEACE QUOTES

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ~William Ewart Gladstone


If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa


Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte


The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit


Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.
~Seymour Miller & Jill Jackson, "Let There Be Peace on Earth," 1955


I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. ~James Conrad


The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. ~William J. Clinton, 1997


The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. ~Vera Brittain, 1964


You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Golda Meir


Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.
~John Greenleaf Whittier


Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ~Francesco Petrarch


Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ~John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses


If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," there would be very few hon. gentlemen in this House who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless. ~Mr. Graham, 1914, Canadian House of Parliament member, commonly attributed to Mahatma Gandhi as "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." (Thanks, Garson O'Toole ofquoteinvestigator.com!)


There is one armor that the world of men and women, as a world, has never yet put on. The churches have long bungled with its fastenings, but the world has gone unfended, and few have been those in whose hands the mystical sword of the spirit has shone with daily use. This armor, waiting to be worn, is the armor of brotherhood and sacrifice, the world of unselfishness, a conquering sword, with the power, where used, to unite the world in love. And there are none who may not put it on. ~M.A. DeWolfe Howe


If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path. ~Mike Dolan,www.hawaiianlife.com


I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. ~Dwight Eisenhower


Lord, bid war's trumpet cease;
Fold the whole earth in peace.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes


We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace? ~J. Ramsay MacDonald


We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


Right is more precious than peace. ~Woodrow Wilson


Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air — explode softly — and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth — boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either — not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum


In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain't they got no shame
~Nikki Giovanni


Let us love the world to peace. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts. ~Charles Wesley Burns


We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. ~J. Ramsay MacDonald

HOPE QUOTES

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault


Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve


Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~Titus Maccius Plautus


Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~Vincent McNabb


In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878


When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown


There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing — but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe


If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson


"Hope" is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops — at all....
~Emily Dickinson, c.1861


Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott


The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life. ~Ana Jacob


All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden. ~Terri Guillemets


The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure


The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~Marian Zimmer Bradley


You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. ~Author Unknown


Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain


Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles


When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. ~Author Unknown


If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley


It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com


The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy


Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ~Norman Cousins

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson


It's all one thing — both tend into one scope -
To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.
~Sir Robert Aytoun of Kincaldie, "Sonnet on Tobacco"


Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. ~S.A. Sachs


We make our lives out of chaos and hope. And love. ~Bones, "Mother and Child in the Bay," original airdate 2006 September 6th, spoken by the character Angela Montenegro, writing credits S.Nathan, H.Hanson, K.Reichs, and N.Hawley


Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb


God sends the dawn
that we might see
the might-have-beens
that still might be. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope. ~Maya Angelou


Hope deceives more men than cunning does. ~Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746


Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be?
Who knows, far out upon the central sea,
That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore
Has set behind us, and will rise before:
A past foretells a future...
~Bayard Taylor, "First Evening"


Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it's there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is Light nearby. ~Terri Guillemets


Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. ~Ouida


It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ~Eric Hoffer


Hope is a strange invention—
A Patent of the Heart—
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out....
~Emily Dickinson, c.1877


To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck


Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Hope is but the dream of those who wake. ~Matthew Prior


Hope is grief's best music. ~Author Unknown


There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza


He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack


When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God. ~Charles L. Allen


Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have. ~Author Unknown


Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~George Weinberg


The birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing. ~Terri Guillemets


Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. ~Author Unknown


Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian


Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang


Hope is the poor man's bread. ~Gary Herbert


Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. ~Victor Hugo


Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~Robert Ingersoll

I'M SORRY QUOTES & SAYINGS

When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately.  It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.  ~Dan Heist


Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.  ~Author Unknown


Never ruin an apology with an excuse.  ~Kimberly Johnson


In some families, please is described as the magic word.  In our house, however, it was sorry.  ~Margaret Laurence


True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.  ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865


Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.  ~Isaac Friedmann


An apology is a good way to have the last word.  ~Author Unknown


An apology is the superglue of life.  It can repair just about anything.  ~Lynn Johnston


The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.  ~Red Auerbach


Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.  ~Margaret Lee Runbeck


Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.  ~Paul Boese


Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough


It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.  ~Grace Hopper


If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?  And why are you waiting?  ~Stephen Levine


For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.  ~Author Unknown


Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.  ~Chinese Proverb


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


True friends stab you in the front.  ~Oscar Wilde


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.  ~Author Unknown


The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.  ~Henry Boye


You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.  ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

REALITY QUOTES

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein


Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? ~M.C. Escher


No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. ~Samuel Johnson


How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. ~Abraham Lincoln


Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it. ~Katharine Brush


There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. ~David G. Myers, Social Psychology


Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes. ~Connie Miller


Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ~Sigmund Freud


How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind? ~Author Unknown


There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch. ~Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985, performed by Lily Tomlin


What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. ~Pablo Picasso


I am a thread too slender
To suspend all this reality...
~Phillip Pulfrey, "Madness," Love, Abstraction and other Speculations, www.originals.net


What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. ~Lewis Mumford, "Orientation to Life," The Conduct of Life, 1951


Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~John Lennon


Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~T.S. Eliot


Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus


Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens — his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey — had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light — an image the normal eye captures only by squinting. ~Eleanor Perenyi


What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. ~Louise Nevelson


It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way. ~Andy Warhol


Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. ~John Burroughs


I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time! ~Author Unknown


Reality is not always probable, or likely. ~Jorge Luis Borges


Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? ~Author Unknown


Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? ~Author Unknown

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. ~Frank Tyger


Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their "agreement," as falsity means their disagreement, with "reality." ~William James


It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ~John Kenneth Galbraith


I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck


Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him? ~Calvin and Hobbes


Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. ~Edward Abbey


All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. ~Marcel Proust,Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain


All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Reality bites... and doesn't let go. ~Author Unknown


The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ~Francis Bacon


The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, 1864


How reluctantly the mind consents to reality! ~Norman Douglas


If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it. ~B. Quilliam


Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly. ~Terri Guillemets


Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. ~M.C. Escher


There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means. ~Daniel J. Boorstin


Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ~Eugene O'Neill


Reality is a palette that humans paint on to let themselves sleep better at night. ~Author Unknown


Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. ~Tom Robbins


I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ~E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960


Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ~Jules de Gaultier


Everything you can imagine is real. ~Pablo Picasso


As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is. ~Ram Dass


What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com


"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
~Emily Dickinson, c.1860


Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak. ~Woody Allen


After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history. ~Author Unknown


Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too. ~Author Unknown


Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~Voltaire


You must be blind if you can't see
The gaping hole called reality.
~Stereo MC's, "Connected"


To accept reality is only to encourage it. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~Neil Gaiman, Books of Magic III


Be careful not to drown in a mirage. ~Terri Guillemets


Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~Jessamyn West


The air of reality is too thick for me
I choke on it
I must live on shadows
Even my poetry is vicarious.
~Terri Guillemets


Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. ~Jennifer Yane


As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew the bottom wasn't there,
Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,
Ignoring little things like that.
~Hughes Mearns


Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ~Jane Wagner


An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ~Mahatma Gandh
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HAPPINESS QUOTES

Don't put the key to happiness in someone else's pocket. ~Author Unknown The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. ~Colette The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. ~John Barrymore "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Brown It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott ("Mattie") Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931 This is my "depressed stance." When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this. ~Charles M. Schulz Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. ~William Wordsworth, 1806 Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig Every now and then, when the world sits just right, a gentle breath of heaven fills my soul with delight... ~Hazelmarie "Mattie" Elliott, A Breath of Heaven It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954 Be happy, and a reason will come along. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it. ~Henepola Gunaratana (Bhante G) If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. ~Diego Val Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles What I’m looking for is a blessing that’s not in disguise. ~Kitty O’Neill Collins My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do? ~Jim Carrey Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill,Autobiography, 1873 You can’t postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness? ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way. ~Thich Nhat Hanh How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. ~Gerald Jampolsky We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960 I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. ~Allen J. Lefferdink The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. ~Andrew Delbanco Happiness is the feeling you’re feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author Unknown So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. ~John Suckling Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. ~J.M. Reinoso We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. ~Thomas Merton, 1955 Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~Mother Teresa Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M." Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock,Mr. Moneypenny The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. ~Colley Cibber The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~Thomas Szasz When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb Doing cartwheels in the green grass of happiness and skipping high towards the blue heavenly skies of joy! ~Terri Guillemets We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898 One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~Eugene O’Neill A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. ~Colette Whatever you set aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Friedrich Nietzsche The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. ~Anton Chekhov Happiness is an inside job. ~William Arthur Ward Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~J.D. Salinger There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring. ~Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama Eden is that old fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away... ~Emily Dickinson Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too. ~Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007 Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ~Carl Sandburg We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else’s happiness. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863 Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you’re really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights — and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Terri Guillemets Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. ~Paulo Coelho Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? ~Leslie Caron On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Joy is not in things; it is in us. ~Richard Wagner Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ~Denis Waitley Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960 Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~Don Marquis If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher [T]he beautiful world of blossom and love and friendship had lost none of its power to please her fancy and thrill her heart... life still called to her with many insistent voices. ~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables  [the comfort of knowing the world goes on after grief, and we can too —tεᖇᖇ¡·g] Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ~Sophocles One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960 Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~Hosea Ballou I think Joy sleeps in strange places. We're always looking for her in shiny, happy, fun times, assuming that Joy prefers her twin brother, Pleasure, when she often hangs out with her somewhat stoic big sister, Strength. Joy is not always easy to recognize, dirt-smudged and sweating, brambles in her hair. I want to believe she sometimes wears a ski mask. ~Edmond Manning, King Perry To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~Charles Caleb Colton Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown We enter life with brilliant expectations of happiness: we picture to ourselves a scene of continued enjoyments, which, when viewed at a distance, enchants the eye and captivates the fancy; but when the hand of time has brought nearer to us the glowing picture which we formed in our youth, how are its colours faded, and our expectations disappointed! We lean on the world and find it a broken reed.... A few rays of happiness do, indeed, sometimes illuminate our horizon, but the passing clouds seldom fail to convince us that their duration is not to be depended upon. ~, "The Benefits of Affliction," The Christian Guardian, and Church of England Magazine, December 1825 Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. ~Terri Guillemets Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. ~Benjamin Franklin The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~Phillips Brooks But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. ~Jean Ingelow With some whose nerves have a deep covering of fat, happiness is less of a problem that it is an accident of anatomy. ~Attributed to Henry S. Haskins Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. ~Joseph Campbell If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. ~John Ruskin Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. ~Norman Bradburn Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. ~Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ~William Morris> If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ~Josh Billings Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness Don’t shade your eyes from the bright joy of the world. ~Terri Guillemets Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel [U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829 Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. ~Charles Gow To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming — a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~Robert S. Lynd I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. ~Abd-El-Raham Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Terri Guillemets The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. ~C.P. Snow Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionar y

RELATIONSHIP QUOTES

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
Ellen DeGeneres

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one. ~Don Miguel Ruiz Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~Margaret Mead Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ~Leo Buscaglia For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859 If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Sticks and stones are hard on bones Aimed with angry art, Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart. ~Phyllis McGinley, "Ballade of Lost Objects," 1954 Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~Henry Winkler Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ~Frederick Buechner Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. ~Carl Reiner Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. ~Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada Never give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about. ~Author Unknown The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. ~Author Unknown It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Without a single thought, two hands collide and the world finally makes sense again. ~Kayla Dawn A lovers' quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn,Forever, ©Flavia.com What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Sometimes, we need a few people in our lives who will calmly call our bluff. ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. ~Author Unknown There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. ~Julie-Jeanne Eléonore de Lepsinasse In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown There are couples a matchmaker would match every time — and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. ~Mary Tyler Moore Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~Rainer Maria Rilke You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Under every full moon are lovers in love, and under every bright sun two friends smile as one. ~Terri Guillemets Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~From the movie Annie

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

LOVE QUOTES

LOVE QUOTES: 

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum" Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Erich Fromm Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Khalil Gibran Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny asRalph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford — but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975 Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949 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, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? ~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard Forget love — I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown Love — a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart whichweakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957 Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~Peter Ustinov Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595 The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ~Albert Ellis Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524 Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ~Henry David Thoreau To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, "Love Story," original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye A baby is born with a need to be loved — and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe If I love you, what business is it of yours? ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day. ~Jessie B. Rittenhouse We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~Bill Balance Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~Rose Franken Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton Feelings pass like clouds but love endures like the sky. ~Peter Roberts (Omnipresent Love, @evolvewithlove) In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations.... ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love is the law of life. ~Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Are you a man, Octave? Do you see the leaves falling from the trees, the sun rising and setting? Do you hear the ticking of the clock of time with each pulsation of your heart? Is there, then, such a difference between the love of a year and the love of an hour? I challenge you to answer that, you fool, as you sit there looking out at the infinite through a window not larger than your hand. ~Alfred de Musset, The Confession of a Child of the Century/La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836, Desgenais to Octave, translated from French by Kendall Warren Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light. ~Terri Guillemets Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com To lovers! — the have-been's, the are-now's, and the may-be's. ~Minna Thomas Antrim, A Book of Toasts, 1902 Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. ~Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, The Story of Us Ah! a blessing beyond all fate My sole mate 'tis my soul mate. ~Pixie Foudre I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven. ~Alfred de Musset, The Confession of a Child of the Century/La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836, Desgenais to Octave, translated from French by Kendall Warren Love is a Mystery. You can't find it; it has to find you. ~Author Unknown 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 the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love. ~Silent Lotus Sometimes a couple stays together for the sake of the kids — two kids who pledged to be forever true. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com My heart was glass, daily shattered Your love the glue, repairing the tattered. ~Jaesse Tyler I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never knowwhere the hell you are. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945 Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. ~Author Unknown Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. ~Author Unknown You see, I'd never stopped to wonder why it was that millions of boys all over creation weren't seeing her and instantly falling in love with her, worshipping her body and mind and soul and spirit as I did. It never occurred to me until this precise moment that maybe lots of boys wouldn't have thought she was gorgeous. Maybe she only seemed so gorgeous to me because — and this is the shocker — her face came alive when I walked in front of it. ~Author Unknown (I got this from Sassy magazine years ago but then lost the magazine — anyone know the attribution?) I'm so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy. ~Jaesse Tyler Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb Friendship, as some sage poet sings, Is chasten'd Love, depriv'd of wings, Without all wish or power to wander; Less volatile, but not less tender: Yet says the proverb—"Sly and slow "Love creeps, even where he cannot go;" To clip his pinions then is vain, His old propensities remain; And she, who years beyond fifteen, Has counted twenty, may have seen How rarely unplum'd Love will stay; He flies not—but he coolly walks away. ~Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), "On the Aphorism, 'L'Amitié est l' Amour sans ailes.'" What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~Pearl Bailey Love is how you earn your wings. ~Karen Goldman Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. ~Terri Guillemets It is really one moment of looking love dead in the eye that takes us everywhere in a flash. ~Swami Chetanananda Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love, love, love — all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ~Germaine Greer We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~W. Somerset Maugham We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. ~Robert Fulghum,True Love I saw them kissing in the shade      and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love,      and even God can give no more. ~Frederic Ridgely Torrence, The House of a Hundred Lights: A Psalm of Experience After Reading a Couplet of Bidpai, 1899 Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare There's no denying that the only real unhappiness in life is losing a man.... Death isn't nature's greatest mistake — falling in love is. If we didn't do that, all the misery in life would be cut right out of it. Oh my goodness, so would all the fun. So, what are you gonna do about it. ~When Ladies Meet, 1941 movie written by Rachel Crothers, John Meehan, Leon Gordon, S.K. Lauren, and Anita Loos, spoken by the character Bridgie Drake  (not sure if this is also in the 1933 movie or 1932 play — anyone know?) While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore Life can be hard but if you've got somebody to love — yeah! ~Terri Guillemets Love is why I came here in the first place. ~John Denver Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Your love has gone all through my body like honey in water, as a drug is mixed into spices, as water is mingled with wine.... ~Author Unknown Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening. ~Alfred de Musset, The Confession of a Child of the Century/La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836, Desgenais to Octave, translated from French by Kendall Warren Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller Love is my religion — I could die for it. ~John Keats It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ~Dan Greenburg Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls. ~Terri Guillemets Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~Author Unknown If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown No maths can entail love, lovers belong to infinity. ~Terri Guillemets A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive. ~Smiley Blanton, Love or Perish Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ~Henry Louis Mencken Love knows no answer for it does not question. ~Silent Lotus You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author Unknown True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall — but you are there to catch them. ~Author Unknown She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~Julins Gordon And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time. ~D.H. Lawrence Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com I am so tired — so tired. I see too many people, Read too many books. Do too many things. I hate the theaters, I hate my work, I want you, — only you.... Come to me between the cool sheets And let me burrow my head in your shoulder.... ~Pauline Cohn, "Rest" It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ~Author Unknown I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me. ~Amanda Bynes Passion spins around love and I am dizzy around you always. ~Terri Guillemets When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray And he could glance at her continually as she bent over the fruit, while the level evening sunbeams stole through the thick apple-tree boughs and rested on her round cheek and neck as if they too were in love with her. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. ~Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you. ~Alfred Noyes, "The Outlaw," The Century Magazine, January 1912 Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover Romance is dead — it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ~Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ~Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured. ~Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, Tried As By Fire; or, The True and the False, Socially. Everyone wants to be the sun that lifts up your life, but I'd rather be your moon, so I may shine on you during your darkest hour when the sun isn't around and the ghost white moonbeams will allow you to find comfort in my arms. ~Craig D. Slovak Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ~Miguel de Unamuno If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne May love touch every brutal soldier and every uncherished heart. ~Terri Guillemets I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~Javan Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon  (Thanks, David) Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ~Francesca M. Cancian What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Adrienne Grandi, as quoted in The Rockmart Journal(Rockmart, Georgia), May 27th 1992 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole ofquoteinvestigator.com!) It's hard to defeat a woman in love. ~Terri Guillemets Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922 In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Terri Guillemets The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes My heart quotes your love for me, not in words but in heartbeats. ~Terri Guillemets Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~George Bernard Shaw The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas [W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally