“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
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.”
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 more you know, the less you are.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”
Variant: It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 92
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Misattributed to Confucius since at least 1985; correct origins are dubious, as mentioned in "Choose a Job You Love, and You Will Never Have To Work a Day in Your Life" at QuoteInvestigator.com (2 September 2014) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/02/job-love/: the oldest English-language use of the proverb has been found in Woolfolk, Ann, "Toshiko Takaezu," Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 83(5), 6 October 1982, p. 32: "Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life." (attributed to Arthur Szathmary, who attributes it, in his turn, to an unnamed source).
Misattributed, Not Chinese
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Variant on aphorism "Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow" pre-dating Gandhi, variously attributed to Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 636), in FPA Book of Quotations (1952) by Franklin Pierce Adams, to Edmund Rich (1175–1240) in American Journal of Education (1877), or to Alain de Lille in Samuel Smiles's Duty https://books.google.com/books?id=33UzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA363&dq=live+die+tomorrow+learn+forever&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd3s_2m57MAhWFMGMKHe-sAl8Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=live%20die%20tomorrow%20learn%20forever&f=false (1881).
The 1995 book "The good boatman: a portrait of Gandhi," states that Gandhi subscribed "to the view that a man should live thinking he might die tomorrow but learn as if he would live forever."
In his 2010 Boyer lecture Glyn Davis (Professor of Political Science and Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne University) attributes the quote to Desiderius Erasmus. "He [Erasmus] reworked Pliny to urge 'live as if you are to die tomorrow, study as if you were to live forever'. Many students obey the first clause - the best heed both."
There is a similar quote by Johann Gottfried Herder: "Mensch, genieße dein Leben, als müssest morgen du weggehn; Schone dein Leben, als ob ewig du weiletest hier." ["Man, enjoy your life as if you were to depart tomorrow; spare your life as if you were to linger here forever."] (Zerstreute Blätter, 1785).
Disputed
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”
Other material for Lily Tomlin
“We need not think alike to love alike.”
This attribution seems to have begun in the 1960s, and has been debunked at "Who really said that?" by Peter Hughes at UU World (15 August 2012) http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/229844.shtml; previously misattributed in A Chosen Faith (1991) by John A. Buehrens; also in Unitarian Universalist Origins: Our Historic Faith by Mark W. Harris https://web.archive.org/web/20060101061859/www.uua.org/info/origins.html
Misattributed
“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3
“You are beautiful and you are alone.”
Afraid
Have I Told You Lately
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
“Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.”
They Call Me Coach (1972)
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Attributed
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.
“It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted.”
Source: On Being Blonde (2004), p. 79
“Family is the most important thing in the world.”
Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess', Hello Magazine Daily News, (1 July 2015) http://us.hellomagazine.com/royalty/1201411051084/princess-diana-s-10-most-inspiring-quotes/
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”
Sharon Salzberg in an article in a magazine called “Woman of Power” in 1989
Misattributed
Eugene Kennedy, cited in: Kathy Wagoner (2002) The Promise of Friendship. p. 284
“Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.”
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982).
“Life is not living, but living in health.”
Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.
VI, 70.
Variant translations:
It is not life to live, but to be well.
Life's not just being alive, but being well.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 64
“What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?”
"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
Section 5 : Love and Marriage
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.
“My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”
Bernard to Leigh-Cheri, in Phase III, Ch. 46
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.”
“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Source: supanet.com/find/famous-quotes-by/axel-munthe/a-man-can-stand-a-lot-as-fqb50991/
“Women are meant to be loved and not understood.”
Mumtaz, November, 1970 (Filmfare, December 7, 2011)
Quotes from Mumtaz
Source: Best of Filmfare http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mumtaz/spicerack.htm
“It's not working from home, it's living at work.”
via FB https://www.facebook.com/grenzfurthner/posts/10158773667254610
“Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.”
“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.”
“We must become the change we want to see.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”
“There is value in NOT doing a thing.”
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