Wise and Inspirational Words Collection

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Julie Andrews Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season. Robert Frost Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Honore de Balzac A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special ...

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. Jesus Christ A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest. Pearl Bailey 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 A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. Brendan Francis A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. Brendan Francis A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man. Miguel de Unamuno A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop...

Be of love a little more careful than of anything. e e cummings 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 Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. George Washington Carver Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God's love commits me here Ever this day be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and guide. Catholic Prayer And love is two misfortunes which together happiness are.(Et l’amour, c’est deux malheurs Qui ensemble font un bonheur) Charles de LEUSSE And love is two misfortunes which together happiness are. Charles de LEUSSE All things are possible through invitation and love. Bryant McGill All my life, my heart has yearne...

Dare to love every person, including yourself. Become the energy of love. Bryant McGill Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. Mao Zedong Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love. Jalal ud-Din Rumi Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. John Donne Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. Samuel Lover Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song. Will Durant Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach Binoculars are a distance when near the eyes. Far from home, near the heart, love. Charles de LEUSSE Being deeply loved by someone gives y...

Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive! (Noli Me Tangere) Dr. Jose P. Rizal Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. Helen Rowland Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. Dwight L. Moody Everything terrible is something that needs our love. Rilke Everything is clearer when you're in love. John Lennon Even unconditional love has its conditions. Tom Zegan Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. Leo Buscaglia Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau Do all things with love. Og Mandino Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only l...

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. Charles Caleb Colton Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate. David Pratt Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Jim Morrison For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go Laurence Hope For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breathe, And love itself have rest Lord Byron For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only th...

Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing. Donna Hedges Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. Helen Keller Have you even been in love Horrible, isn't it It makes you so vulnrable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wan...

i don't like having friends, i would rather have brothers. because friends, once you get into a fight with them, you wouldn't mind if you guys ever spoke again or not. But brothers, its different, if something happens, nobody's gonna be standing next to you in every good or bad situation, its kinda the same thing for a girlfriend, i'll get upset if we fight ... because she won't be here to make me laugh and smile, but the love between a girl and a guy isn't the same as the love between two brothers - Zen Zen diab I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success....Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Nikola Tesla I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stro...

I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness. Trey and Matt Stone Parker I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Oscar Wilde I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Emily Dickinson I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mot...

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. Andr Maurois In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles In a world of hate, love is the revolution. Bryant McGill Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.' Mignon McLaughlin I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. Benjamin Franklin If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Benjamin Franklin If you wish to b...

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. Anonymous If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. Ann Landers If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen. Samuel Adams If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Theresa If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible...

Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. Bryant McGill Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. Vincent Van Gogh Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Theresa I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and co...

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none. Giuseppe Mazzini like the cycle of water and life there is of love first you meet him, have a crush on him, dream that he is so damn perfect, realize he loves someone else, have a broken heart, finally getting over, and damn it! here we go again Fer Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, than one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found someone you truly love, only to figure out, she doesn't love you back. You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, and what they have...

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. William Shakespeare Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. John Lennon Love is a kind of warfare. Ovid Love is a game that two can play and both win. Eva Gabor Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. Mother Theresa Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. Barbara de Angelis Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein Love in its essence is spiritual fire. Swedenborg Love heals violence and all its sources. Love only serves and does not calculate. Love giv...

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia Love is Free, Its the Pain in the end, you pay for. Edwin A. Ortiz Love is dialougue, not monolougue Mike Zmija Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Robert Frost Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same you forget yourself. Claude Roy Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. Leo Buscaglia Love is a symbol of mutual tolerance and unbiased vision. We should meet each person with love and respect, regardless of nationality, color, or religion. Permeated by love, no one takes up arms, to...

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion. Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Annie Sullivan Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Lao Tzu Love is not something you feel. It's something you do. David Wilkerson Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery. Bryant McGill Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. H. L. Mencken Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop. Henry Louis Mencken Love is like an hourglass, with the heart fill...

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Love is what you've been through with somebody. James Grover Thurber Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence. Henry Louis Mencken Love is the strongest feeling a person can feel and to have the one you love, love you back is the greatest gift you could ever receive. Clairence Allen Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore Love is the life of humanity. Emanuel Swedenborg Love is the flower you've got to let grow. John Lennon Love is the beaut...

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. R. A. Dickson Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult. Bryant McGill Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Sir Walter Scott Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. Khalil Gibran Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anais Nin Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van Gogh Love makes your soul crawl out from i...

Never hurt other feelings if you cannot give them little love. Prakash Adhikari My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Osho Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. Richard Dawkins Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night. Sybil Adelman Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. Cicero Meet everyone ...

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. Leo Buscaglia People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. Mother Theresa Open your heart, love will find you. Open your eyes, you'll see love. Open your mouth and you'll speak full of love. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, POET 2013 Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend. Quentin Crisp One is very crazy when in love. Sigmund Freud One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho 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 su...