Love & Marriage Quotes

"Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along."
- Anon

You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.
- Friends

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Unknown

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
-GEORGE WASHINGTON

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
-GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.
-HONORE DE BALZAC

Marriage is for woman the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
-BERTRAND RUSSELL

Getting married is like permanently grafting your hand to the cookie jar. No matter how sweet those cookies may taste, you can't help but wonder what would have happened if you'd chosen some other dessert--brownies, for instance ... or frozen yogurt ... or maybe chocolate strudel.
-JEROME P. CRABB

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and Church-begotten weed, marriage?
-EMMA GOLDMAN, Anarchism and Other Essays

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
-FRANCIS BACON, Essays

To make a happy fire-side clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
ROBERT BURNS, To Dr. Blacklock

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet Letter

When a match has equal partners, then I fear not.
-AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound

Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.
-JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, Dec. 29, 1711

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
-JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.
-FRANK SINATRA, The Joker Is Wild

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
-JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice

Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
-AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
-GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.
-BILL MAHER, Rolling Stone, Aug. 24, 2006

I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.
-GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Lund Washington, Sep. 20, 1783

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California I have to go to prison don't I? I think you only get three.
-ROSEANNE BARR, Larry King Live, Mar. 2, 2006

The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?
-HERBERT SPENCER, An Autobiography

When a man marries a woman, they become one--the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.


BEFORE MARRIAGE
He: Yes. At last. It was so hard to wait.
She: Do you want me to leave?
He: NO! Don't even think about it.
She: Do you love me?
He: Of course! Over and over!
She: Have you ever cheated on me?
He: NO! Why are you even asking?
She: Will you kiss me?
He: Every chance I get!
She: Will you hit me?
He: Are you crazy! I'm not that kind of person!
She: Can I trust you?
He: Yes. 
She: Darling! 

AFTER MARRIAGE
Read from the bottom going up
- Unknown

The reason most couples get divorced is not because they get bored with each other. It's because when you're dating, you pretend to be someone you're not.

And there's only so long you can hold that off.
- House

Good Luck Quotes

Good Luck Quotes

Here’s to wishing you the best of luck in all life has to offer you.

Good luck to you as you move toward the next chapter life brings your way.

I heard about your good news and wanted to wish you good luck and best of health.

So glad to hear about your promotion. May your life always be filled with such good luck.

My heart is filled with joy at the sound of your good news. Best of luck to you dear friend.

Here’s to hoping good luck continues to follow you for all the rest of your days my friend.

Luck is not found but made by those who are determined and you are one such person.

Sending you thoughtful wishes in all life’s endeavors. Good luck to you now and always.

I am overjoyed to know that your life is filled with such good luck and may it always be that way.

Life is what you make of it and I am happy to know that yours is filled with such good luck.

May you find as much joy in your life as you have luck my sweet friend.

So happy to hear your wonderful news. Here’s to wishing you the best of luck!

I am thrilled to know that luck has finally found you. Warmest wishes my friend.

Sending you happy thoughts and lots of luck as you move forward with your life.

The sweetest things in life are love and happiness. Wishing you good luck now that you have found that.

My heart is flowing with joy at knowing that good luck has finally fallen upon your doorstep.

I find my heart singing a chorus at your happy news. Good luck to you during this joyous time.

Smile knowing that good luck has finally found you. Wishing you plenty of joy, happiness, and health.

The good luck you have made for yourself is an inspiration to many. May it continue throughout your life.

Good luck to you and remember to keep your head up high for all the days of your beautiful and wonderful life.

Quotes on Dreams

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, A Dream Within a Dream

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

GAO XINGJIAN, Dialogue and Rebuttal

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.

BILL CLINTON, speech at Democratic National Convention, July 26, 2004

Dreaming men are haunted men.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT, John Brown's Body

If I dream I have you, I have you,

For, all our joys are but fantastical.

JOHN DONNE, The Dream

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week.

WILLIAM DEMENT, Newsweek, Nov. 30, 1959

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave

A paradise for a sect.

JOHN KEATS, The Fall of Hyperion

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

HUGH HEFNER, AskMen.com interview

If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.

GEORG KAISER, The Raft of the Medusa

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Father, O father! what do we here

In this land of unbelief and fear?

The Land of Dreams is better far,

Above the light of the morning star.

WILLIAM BLAKE, The Land of Dreams

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

CARL JUNG, Man and His Symbols

Funny Humorous Quotes

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
-A. Whitney Brown

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
- Stephen Wright

When they asked George Washington for his ID, he just took out a quarter.
- Stephen Wright.

Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
--Sue Murphy

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'
-Bruce Baum

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
- Ellen DeGeners.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
- Yogi Berra

He who sleeps on the floor will not fall off the bed.
- Robert Gronock.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.
- Elayne Boosler

Wherever I go, people are waving at me. Maybe if I do a good job, they'll use all their fingers.
- Frank King, Winter Olympic Games organizing committee chairman.

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.
- Mark Knopfler.

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for a dollar and use it up in two weeks.
- Barrymore.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
- Mork, Mork and Mindy

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
- Dick Cavett

When you come to a fork in the road, take it!
- Yogi Berra

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
- Dan Quayle

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
- W. C. Fields.

It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people.
- Dolph Sharp

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES BY BUDDHA

1. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

2. “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”

3. “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” 

4. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” 

5. “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”

6. “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” 

7. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

8. “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

9. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” 

10. “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” 

 Also is the final one by The Buddha:

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

POSITIVE THOUGHTS AND QUOTES

“The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” ~ Steve Schulte

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so.” ~ Hamlet

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” ~ Og Mandino

“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ~ Sun Tzu

“We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and crete a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice.” ~ Jacob Held

“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.” ~ Joseph Sugarman

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.” ~ Seth Godin

“Nothing truly stops you.  Nothing truly holds you back.  For your own will is always within your control.  Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn’t be affected by an incident unless you let it.” ~ Epictetus

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” ~ Anthony Robbins

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” ~ Groucho Marx

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.” ~ Og Mandino

MOTHER TERESA : Love Life and Live Life Quotes

1. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. 
2. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
3. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
4. It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
5. Love is repaid by love alone!
6. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
7. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
8. Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
9. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
10. Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other–it doesn’t matter who it is– and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
11. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
12. Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
13. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
14. If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
15. It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Hurtful Quotes

Hurtful words can cut deep. But the deepest cut isn't really the hurtful words at all, but rather the lost relationship and love if you choose not to put the past to rest and begin fresh.

I still have feelings for you. Not enough to want you back, But enough to make it hurt.

I wish it were as easy to hate someone as it were to UNFRIEND them.

It's HARD if some one special ignores you but it's HARDER pretending that you just don't care.

Trying to forget someone who hurt you so much is like trying to remember someone you never met.

Someone can hurt you more than you deserve because you love them more than they deserve.

The worst feeling is not being lonely. It's when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you and you have to pretend you don't mind at all.

Don't over use your heart in loving someone... Sometimes you need to use your brain to stop the pain...

The worst part of being lied to, is knowing you were not worthy of the truth.

Never let the person that hurt you make you miss out on someone that wants to love you.

Happiness Quotes

1. In life, you get what you put in.  Everything comes back around.
2. You can never change the past nor control the future, but you can change the mood of the day by touching someone’s heart with your smile.
3. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
4. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
5. It’s nice to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s also important to make sure you haven’t lost track of the things that money can’t buy.
6. You don’t need a lot of money to lead a rich life.  Good friends and a loving family are worth their weight in gold.
7. You will never fully believe in yourself if you keep comparing yourself to everyone else.  Instead, compare yourself to who you were yesterday. 
8. You won’t always be punished FOR your anger, but you will always be punished BY your anger.
9. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes.  There is no need to explain or make sense of it.  Just trust what you feel.
10. One of the greatest freedoms is truly not caring what everyone else thinks of you.
11. As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them.  Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.
12. Don’t let anyone walk through your mind with their dirty feet.
13. It hurts the most when you start pretending it doesn’t.
14. You are responsible for how you feel no matter what someone does to you. Remember, you are always in control of your thoughts so choose to feel confident and adequate rather than angry and insecure.

Love Quotes

Love Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” 
― Marilyn Monroe“

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.” 
― William W. Purkey

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” 
― Dr. Seuss


“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” 
― Elbert Hubbard

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” 
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” 
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves

Health Motivational Quotes

“Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul.” – Susie Michelle Cortright

“Hear your heart. Heart your health.” – Faith Seehill

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein

“Limitations are for people that have them and excuses are for people that need them.” – Unknown

“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training… what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” – Socrates

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” – John F. Kennedy

“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.” – Goethe

“The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil

“The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha

“Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.” – Dr. Maxwell Maltz

“Act as if everything you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

“Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears?” – Unknown

“How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?” – Jason Bishop

Inspirational Quotes

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-W.B. Yeats

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
-T.E. Lawrence

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
-William Faulkner

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-Patrick Henry

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
-Henry D. Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
-Marcia Wieder

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
-Henry David Thoreau

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
-Hamilton Wright Mabie

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
-Anonymous

Hope is the dream of the waking man.
-French Proverb

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
-William Shakespeare
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
-Gail Devers quotes

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde quotes

The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.
- Tom Bradley quotes

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
- Edgar Cayce quotes

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C.S. Lewis quotes

7 Wonderful Quotes on Life

“We can not solve our problems with the
same level of thinking that created them.”
―Albert Einstein

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness
without protecting yourself from happiness.”
―Jonathan Safran Foer

“We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”
―Elizabeth Gilbert

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
―Epicurus

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the BS story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”
―Unknown

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s the one who asks the right questions.”
―Claude Lévi-Strauss

“In every end, there is also a beginning.”
―Libba Bray

Motivating Quotes

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

15 Quotes on Positive Thinking

15
“The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” ~ Steve Schulte

#14
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13
“There is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so.” ~ Hamlet

#12
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” ~ Og Mandino

#11
“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” ~ Zig Ziglar

#10
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ~ Sun Tzu

#9
“We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and crete a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice.” ~ Jacob Held

#8
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.” ~ Joseph Sugarman

#7
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

#6
“Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.” ~ Seth Godin

#5
“Nothing truly stops you.  Nothing truly holds you back.  For your own will is always within your control.  Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn’t be affected by an incident unless you let it.” ~ Epictetus

#4
“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” ~ Anthony Robbins

#3
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” ~ Groucho Marx

#2
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

#1
“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.” ~ Og Mandino

Apology: Top Ten Quotes

Top Ten Quotes

1) "I am very conscious that I am not wise at all," (Socrates) 2) "in my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable." (Socrates) 3) "Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly," (Socrates) 4) "You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man." (Socrates) 5) "To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know." (Socrates) 6) "I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding." (Socrates) 7) "It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do." (Socrates) 8) "Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself," (Socrates) 9) "Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost." (Socrates) 10) "Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place." (Socrates)

50 Motivational Quotes

1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

2. The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost

3. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William B. Sprague

4. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

5. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
- Henry Ford

6. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- Oprah Winfrey

7. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan

8. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

9. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Goethe

10. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

11. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi

12. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
- Napoleon Hill

13. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote

14. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

15. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

16. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac B. Singer

17. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
- Unknown

18. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

19. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

20. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
- Unknown

21. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
- Unknown

22. Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
- Dan Stanford

23. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein

24. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs

25. If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
- Marie Osmond

26. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
- Roy Goodman

27. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- E. Joseph Cossman

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

29. We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

31. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
- Mark Twain

32. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

33. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

34. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
- Richard B. Sheridan

35. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

36. ”Act or accept.”
- Anonymous

37. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
- Tim Blixseth

38. The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

39. Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
- Dr Phil

40. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey

41. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale

42. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
- Anonymous

43. Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

44. I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.
- John Cage

45. Fall down seven times, get up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

46. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Unknown

47. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Unknown

48. Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.
- Dr. Phil

49. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Dr. Denis Waitley

50. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Importance of love

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Jeff Zinnert

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

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

Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust

I could never love where I could not respect.
Charlotte Elizabeth Aisse

Sometimes we let affection, go unspoken,
Sometimes we let our love go unexpressed,
Sometimes we can't find words to tell our feelings,
Especially towards those we love the best.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire

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 many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
From the movie 'Moulin Rouge'

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.
Bryce Courtney

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.
Charles Stanley

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others' love to us.
Thomas Trahern

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

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy

Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare

Forgiveness Quotes

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free." - Katherine Ponder

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." - Bryant H. McGill

"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." - Robert Quillen

"Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me." - Anonymous

"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me." - Sara Paddison

"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." - Marlene Dietrich

"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life." - George MacDonald

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Louis B. Smedes

"We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven." - Martha Kilpatrick

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Robert Muller

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." - Mark Twain

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." - William Arthur Ward

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

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

"If you can't forgive and forget, pick one." - Robert Brault

"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass." - George Herbert

"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation." - Roberto Assagioli

"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself." - Harriet Nelson

"Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge." - Isaac Friedmann

"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future." - Louis B. Smedes

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness." - Norman Cousins

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." - Hannah Arendt

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave." - Indira Gandhi

"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on." - Alice Duer Miller

"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind." - Isabelle Holland

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." - Cherie Carter-Scott

"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it." - Mason Cooley

"Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature." - Laurence Sterne