“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51
Anniversary quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of teachers' day, graduation, wedding, birthday.
Best anniversary quotes
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse book Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
“To love is to will the good of the other.”
Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica
II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
“Every real story is a never ending story.”
Michael Ende book The Neverending Story
Source: The Neverending Story
Anniversary quotes
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Glass
Jace to Clary, pg. 331
Variant: There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)
“It's a wonderful life if you can find it.”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Source: Complete Lyrics
“As long as there's life, there's hope.”
Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)
“I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”
Eric Rücker Eddison book A Fish Dinner in Memison
A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
Context: The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.
“As long as there's me
As long as there's you”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
"Where Are We Now?" (2013)
Song lyrics, The Next Day (2013)
Context: Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know
As long as there's sun
As long as there's sun
As long as there's rain
As long as there's rain
As long as there's fire
As long as there's fire
As long as there's me
As long as there's you
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“To know and not to do is really not to know.”
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director
“That's not my love; that's just your life.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Isso não é o meu amor; é apenas a sua vida.
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
“With our love, we could save the world.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
“But what is life if you don't live it?”
James Patterson book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
Alanis Morissette (1974) Canadian-American singer-songwriter
“May you live all the days of your life.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“All I think of ever is that I love you.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving
Variant: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Source: The Age of Innocence
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
“The future was not what it used to be.”
K. A. Bedford book Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 156)
“Man knows that love is, but not what it is.”
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian
Divine Love and Wisdom #1
George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
Letter to Lady Emerald Cunard, quoted in The Everything Wedding Vows Book : Anything and Everything You Could Possibly Say at the Altar, and then Some. (2001) by Janet Anastasio and Michelle Bevilacqua, p. 97.
“What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?”
Edie Brickell (1966) singer from the United States
"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
“That is what I want to be remembered for.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Yours, Isaac Asimov (20 September 1973) <!-- page 329 -->
General sources
Context: What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.
