Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson


When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck


The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne


The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb


I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~Elwyn Brooks White


Life is simple, its just not easy. ~Author Unknown


A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella


Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ~Richard Bach


Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ~Cherralea Morgen


The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey


Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left


Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962


In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris


To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson


Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant


I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes


You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp


As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown


I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz


Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller


Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. ~Marion Howard


Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~Author Unknown


You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson


Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye


I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth


Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson


We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown


Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown


Life is a cement trampoline. ~Howard Nordberg


To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him. ~Jeremy Taylor


Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper. ~The X-Files


He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown


Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses


I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. ~Jim Carrey


The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ~John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms


Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm


My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. ~Cary Grant


To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis


Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ~Author Unknown


My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ~Louis Adamic


No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November 1838


Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. ~Samuel Johnson


Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go." ~Maya Angelou


Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you? ~Author Unknown


Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, 1906


Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,
Where destiny with men for pieces plays;
Hither and thither, and mates, and slays.
~Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, 1859


...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. ~Walt Whitman, "O Me! O Life!", Leaves of Grass


Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain


Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson


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


There is no wealth but life. ~John Ruskin


I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ~Rupert Brooke


Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. ~Jerome K. Jerome


The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau


Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes. ~Author Unknown


Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool. ~Gioacchino Rossini


We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. ~Paul Eldridge


I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock


Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ~Anton Chekhov


Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ~W. Somerset Maugham


In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. ~Diego Marchi


I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
~Robert Browning


Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. ~Ashleigh Brilliant


Life is an incurable Disease. ~Abraham Cowley


The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others. ~Jessi Lane Adams


Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you. ~Anonymous


For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ~Albert Camus


Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood


The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ~Angelina Jolie


Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. ~Bruce Crampton


Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.
~Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Let No Charitable Hope


To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire


The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ~Thomas Carlyle


All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Havelock Ellis


Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison


We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


[Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945


Give us Lord, a bit o' sun,
A bit o' work and a bit o' fun;
Give us all in the struggle and sputter
Our daily bread and a bit o' butter.
~From an inn in Lancaster, England


The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ~Heywood Broun


We're all accidental soldiers in the army of life. ~Ymber Delecto


Life is a long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler


He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb


But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum


God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. ~Douglas Adams


Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. ~Robert Frost


Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter...
~Sera Christann


Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schulz


There is no finish line. ~Nike advertisement


It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson


Life is life, and death is life, and everything in between. ~Cherralea Morgen


I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein


The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson


The world is a sunny success. ~Ever Garrison


Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. ~Vita Sackville-West


The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps


In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown


The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen


Not unfortunately the universe is wild - game-flavoured as a hawk's wing. ~B.P. Blood


You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams


Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ~Learned Hand


The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus


Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. ~Albert Einstein


I gave my life to learning how to live.
Now that I have organized it all...
It is just about over.
~Sandra Hochman


There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~Anaïs Nin


[P]erhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. ~George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Adam Bede


Only a few things are really important. ~Marie Dressler

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~Henry Miller


Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little. ~Thomas Aloysius Dorgan


Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer


Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ~Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980


Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. ~Danny Orton and Blair Daly, "Stand"


If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~Huey Newton


Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~Nancy Willard, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead


It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ~Phillips Brooks


There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. ~William Lyon Phelps


Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around. ~David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down, 1965


If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. ~Confucius


Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. ~R.D. Laing


In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.
~Ben Jonson, To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison, 1640


Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning. ~Stacy


Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ~James Gibbons Huneker


Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ~Ogden Nash


I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. ~A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young


Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke


People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie


In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings." ~From the movie Mansfield Park


Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ~Anton Chekhov


To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~Samuel Butler


Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ~Kathleen Norris


When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain


One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him. ~Lemony Snicket


There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~José Ortega y Gasset


The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ~Peter De Vries, Let Me Count the Ways, 1965


Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. ~Joseph Wood Krutch


I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me. ~Richard Phillips Feynman


Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~Timothy Fuller


The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens. ~Jason Q., from generationterrorists.com


It's just life. Just live it. ~The Quote Garden


Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes. ~Luigi Pirandello


Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit. ~Jonathan Winters


There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ~H.L. Mencken


Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ~Agnes' Law


Life is one big judgment call. ~The Quote Garden


Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid


Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver


Life is a series of collisions with the future. ~José Ortega y Gasset


The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations


Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver


Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~Albert Einstein, in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929


Jack Palance: "Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean shit."
Billy Crystal: "Yeah, but what's that one thing?"
Jack Palance: "That's what you've got to figure out."
~From the movie City Slickers


Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey


Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown


Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Wind compiled by Cheewa James


Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? ~Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950


God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor


The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question. ~The Quote Garden


Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ~Mel Brooks


Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ~e.e. cummings


Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill


When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. ~Thomas Merton

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. ~Eric 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. ~Kahlil 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 as Ralph 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 which weakens 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


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


Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds.
~Grey Livingston


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 Duc de La Rochefoucauld


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


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
(Thanks, Krystel)


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002


Love is no respecter of age or practicality
Neither morality: unabashed
She enters where she will
Unheeding that her immortal fires
Burn up human hearts...
~Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me, www.originals.net


Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. ~Lord Dewar


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. ~Rabindranath Tagore


Love burns across the infinitude. ~Meriel Stelliger


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer


'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer


Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry


Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. LeGuin


Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor


Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi


People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates


Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. ~Hannah Moore


Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod


Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning


Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"


He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy


It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois


You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. ~Werner Erhard


No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Love me and the world is mine. ~David Reed


It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. ~Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943


The love game is never called off on account of darkness. ~Tom Masson


They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow (Thanks, Katherine!)


Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~David Byrne


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë


The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb


Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
~James J. Walker


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~Honoré de Balzac


Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac


Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor


Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. ~Author Unknown


The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. ~Francis Quarles, Emblems


Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. ~Paul-Jean Toulet


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism


It's hard to defeat a woman in love. ~Destin Figuier


All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld


Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero


A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb


The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne


A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. ~Nicholas de Chamfort


Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal


Loving is never a waste of time. ~Astrid Alauda


Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski


True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. ~William Butler Yeats


Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ~Author Unknown


Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960


Love is being stupid together. ~Paul Valery


In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. ~Charles Baudelaire


Open your heart and take us in,
Love - love and me.
~W.E. Henley


Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ~Rita Rudner


Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. ~Charles du Bos


I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre


What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams


I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~Sylvester Stallone


Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
~Gilbert Parker


The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670


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


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare


Love floods us with hope. ~Jareb Teague


Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee


Life only starts when love comes. ~From the movie Bill of Divorcement, 1932


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. ~George Jean Nathan


Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. ~French Proverb


True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)


I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


There's nothing more freeing than the shackles of love. ~Emma Racine deFleur


When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match. ~Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle


Platonic love is love from the neck up. ~Thyra Smater Winsolow


We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~Tom Robbins


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood


You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica


So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton


Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald


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


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


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


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


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 know where 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


What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~Pearl Bailey


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 are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown


Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare


While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore


Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller


Love is my religion - I could die for it. ~John Keats


Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ~Dan Greenburg


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


Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen


Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ~Henry Louis Mencken


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


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


Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown


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. ~Author Unknown


Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~Julins Gordon


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


It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ~Author Unknown


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


Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Grey Livingston


Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


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


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


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


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


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi


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. ~Emma Racine deFleur


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


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

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. ~Michael Cibenko


Don't let the past steal your present. ~Cherralea Morgen


There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. ~Robert Nathan, So Love Returns


You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell


Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato? ~From the television show Boston Common


I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. ~David Gerrold


I can't wait all my life
On a street of broken dreams.
~Journey, "It Could Have Been You"


No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde


It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859


We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. ~Art Buchwald


If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today. ~Author Unknown


Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Indian Proverb


The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. ~Author Unknown


Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ~Edna Ferber


I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. ~Carl Sandburg, "Prairie," Complete Poems, 1950


The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. ~Chris Cobbs


Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. ~Euripides, Alexander


The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. ~L. Thomas Holdcroft


We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. ~Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters, 1913


The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. ~Herman Melville, White Jacket


No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. ~Brendan Francis


People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good now days? ~Robert M. Young


Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace. ~Author Unknown


"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. ~George E. Woodberry


Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889


When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell

You have to wake up a virgin each morning. ~Jean-Louis Barrault


We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ~John Newton


If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown


Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow's much too long....
~Billy Corgan, "Today," Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins), 1993


The living moment is everything. ~D.H. Lawrence


Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ~Montaigne


Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. ~Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922


Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now. ~Caleb Baylor Hive, 2005


Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Forever is composed of nows. ~Emily Dickinson


Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. ~Marie Louise De La Ramee


The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson


It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. ~Margaret Bonnano


Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji


Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Psalm of Life


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ~Alan Watts


It's not what if, it's what now. ~Author Unknown


Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. ~Mary Jean Iron


We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ~Sholem Asch, The Nazarene, 1939


Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere


If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. ~Author Unknown


Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber


We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ~Fulton Oursler


Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future. ~T.A. Sachs


Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. ~André Gide, Nourritures Terrestres


In today already walks tomorrow. ~Friedrich von Schiller


When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. ~Author Unknown


The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~Abraham Maslow


The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving


I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein


Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. ~Leo Buscaglia


The future is no place to place your better days. ~Dave Matthews


The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ~Jim Bishop


If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. ~Emerson, Journals, 1827


Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~D.H. Lawrence


One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~Dale Carnegie


Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. ~The Music Man


We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. ~Henry Ward Beecher


God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ~Isak Dinesen


Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~Euripides


Life's a journey, not a destination. ~Aerosmith


If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb


The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. ~Abraham Lincoln

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~Wilson Mizner


Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ~William Shakespeare


Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ~R.E. Shay


Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. ~Don Sutton


Everything in life is luck. ~Donald Trump


Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. ~Mark Twain


Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb


Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Go and wake up your luck. Persian Saying


Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King


Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. ~Langston Coleman


It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. ~Frank A. Clark


Luck never made a man wise. ~Seneca, Letters to Lucilius


Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. ~Author Unknown


I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson


Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it. ~Author Unknown


Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ~Jean Cocteau


The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford


Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ~Henry L. Doherty


I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~Eartha Kitt


It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~Attributed to Harry S. Truman


A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb


In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ~Paul Eldridge


Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ~Vilfredo Pareto


When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb


It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski


Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. ~Mark Twain


Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond


The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ~Antisthenes


Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ~Alexander Pope


Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley


Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928


I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln


The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. ~Mohammed


Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb


All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. Fischer


I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill


The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~Mortimer Adler


There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. ~George Herbert Palmer


Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. ~Martin H. Fischer


No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle


Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford


It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong. ~Martin H. Fischer


If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ~Russell Hoban


You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. ~H.G. Wells


I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone


Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz


I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ~Bernard Keble Sandwell


Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~Dana Stewart Scott


His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. ~H.G. Wells


The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler


Learning without thought is labor lost. ~Confucius


The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels. ~Martin H. Fischer


The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ~Lesley Conger


The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ~Henry S. Haskins


We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ~Lloyd Alexander


You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky


The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~John Lubbock


Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb


People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. ~Bill Vaughan

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" ~E.M. Kelly


A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ~Author Unknown


Leadership is action, not position. ~Donald H. McGannon


You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. ~Gene Mauch


The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ~Elaine Agather


You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ~Albert Schweitzer


Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. ~Robert Jarvik


You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson


If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed


Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. ~Tom Peters


One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. ~Dennis A. Peer


A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. ~John C. Maxwell


A leader is best
When people barely know that he exists.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu


The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart


If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ~Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord


A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him. ~Mark Brouwer


I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. ~Indira Gandhi


Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~Rudy Giuliani


A leader leads by example not by Force. ~Sun Tzu


A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~Golda Meir


The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt


He led his regiment from behind -
He found it less exciting.
But when away his regiment ran,
His place was at the fore, O.
~W.S. Gilbert


Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ~Vince Lombardi


Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ~Author Unknown


The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. ~Tony Blair


Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"


Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ~Anne Bradstreet


A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ~Ralph Nader


Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic


Management is nothing more than motivating other people. ~Lee Iacocca


There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ~Alexandre Ledru-Rollin


I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ~Eugene V. Debs


To lead the people, walk behind them. ~Lao-Tzu


Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ~Eric Hoffer

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman


Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi, "Teaching and Expanding Knowledge," Science, 4 December 1964


Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~Confucius


Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion. ~Author Unknown


A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. ~Michael Garrett Marino


In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw


One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. ~Crates


The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. ~Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers


Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~Abbott Lawrence Lowell


All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck


Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes. ~Panchatantra


We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. ~H.L. Mencken


If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. ~Susanne K. Langer


To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~Thomas Henry Huxley


Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ~Carl G. Jung

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~Albert Einstein


A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~Ingrid Bergman


A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. ~Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois), Theatre Arts, December 1955


Is not a kiss the very autograph of love? ~Henry Finck


A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving;
'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
~Edmond Rostand


Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other. ~Rene Yasenek


How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo


Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound


A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition. ~Clare Whiting


I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies' hands - after all, one must start somewhere. ~Sacha Guitry


I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. ~Arturo Toscanini


Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
~Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"


In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine. ~Author Unknown


Stolen kisses require an accomplice. ~Just One Fool Thing After Another: A Cowfolks' Guide to Romance


Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings


If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. ~Thomas Carlyle


A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. ~Helen Rowland


Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss. ~Robert Burns


'Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland


What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? ~Robert Browning, A Toccata of Galuppi's


Once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul thro'
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson


People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy. ~Bob Hope


A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb


A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. ~Author Unknown


Were kisses all the joys in bed,
One woman would another wed.
~William Shakespeare, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, IV


What lies lurk in kisses. ~Heinrich Heine


Happiness is like a kiss - it feels best when you give it to someone else. ~Author Unknown


The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. ~Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

"May I print a kiss on your lips?" I said,
And she nodded her full permission:
So we went to press and I rather guess
We printed a full edition.
~Joseph Lilientha


Kissing is like drinking salted water. You drink, and your thirst increases. ~Chinese Proverb


[T]hen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open. ~Agnes de Mille


A kiss seals two souls for a moment in time. ~Levende Waters


See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea: -
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Love's Philosophy


Her kisses left something to be desired... the rest of her. ~Author Unknown


She kissed me, and my mouth wrote a poem of welcome to her lips. ~Ward Elliot Hour


I ran up the door, opened the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers - turned off my bed, tumbled into my light, and all because he kissed me good-night! ~Author Unknown


Never a lip is curved with pain
That can't be kissed into smile again.
~Brete Harte


A kiss is the upper persuasion for a lower invasion. ~Author Unknown


The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth


Kisses kept are wasted;
Love is to be tasted.
There are some you love, I know;
Be not loathe to tell them so.
Lips go dry and eyes grow wet
Waiting to be warmly met.
Keep them not in waiting yet;
Kisses kept are wasted.
~Edmund Vance Cooke


Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can't hold back. ~Author Unknown


A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ~Rupert Brooke


The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table


Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing.
~Dorothy Parker


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown


Each kiss a heart-quake... ~Lord Byron, Don Juan


[L]eave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
~Ben Jonson, To Celia


It takes a lot of experience for a girl to kiss like a beginner. ~Ladies Home Journal, 1948


Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ~Margaret Mitchell


Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in.
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me;
Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me.
~Leigh Hunt, Jenny Kissed Me


A man's kiss is his signature. ~Mae West


We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker. ~Amethyst Snow-Rivers


Kiss: love professed through lips. ~Scarlett Bene


Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
~William Shakespeare


When I kiss you, I can taste your soul. ~Carrie Latet


I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. ~Chico Marx


I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. ~Barbara Bush


A man had given all other bliss,
And all his worldly worth for this,
To waste his whole heart in one kiss
Upon her perfect lips.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath. ~Eve Glicksman

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault


If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope


Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson


A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ~Charles H. Spurgeon


It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown


Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. ~Author Unknown


What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind. ~Cleveland Amory


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama


During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones


I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard Kipling


Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ~Frank Tyger


Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown


A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein


Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain


Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca


A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb


Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ~Samuel Johnson


There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. ~Confucius


Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author Unknown


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


When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel


If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. ~Mark Twain


Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
~Adam Lindsay Gordon


How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver


You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden


Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~Author Unknown


If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth


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

Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Attributed to both T.H. Thompson and John Watson


By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston Churchill


Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. Clark


The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. ~Author Unknown


The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt


We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus


One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb


Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. ~Marian Wright Edelman


Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia


A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb


As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it. ~The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, 1977


We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Til in Heaven the deed appears -
Pass it on.
~Henry Burton, Pass It On


Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ~Saint Vincent de Paul


Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back. ~Author Unknown


Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. ~Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit


Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino


If every man's internal care
Were written on his brow,
How many would our pity share
Who raise our envy now?
~Peitro Metastasio


Kindness is the greatest wisdom. ~Author Unknown


A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"


If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ~Thomas Fuller


Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. ~Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, 1738


Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social Aims


The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. ~Bertrand Russell


If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred Fripp


To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ~Max Beerbohm


One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~Booker T. Washington


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard


Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel Johnson


The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History. ~Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity


Love someone who doesn't deserve it. ~Author Unknown


The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ~Malcolm S. Forbes


It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah


There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. ~Attributed to both Zig Ziglar and Dr. Kenneth McFarland


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson


If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~H.L. Mencken


Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie


In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland


How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~William Shakespeare


I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli


How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston


Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~From the television show My So-Called Life


Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather


Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett


When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl


Always be a little kinder than necessary. ~James M. Barrie


If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. ~Willie Davis