Cute quotes
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“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Heartbreaking, Friendship, Missing You, For Friend

“Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

love, Wedding, Heart

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

For Wife, love, Wise, Relationship

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

History

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

love, Relationship, Romantic, Valentine's Day

“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

Happy, For Wife, love, Wise

“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)

love, Romantic, Anniversary, Valentine's Day

“The more you know, the less you are.”

Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Deep, Inspirational, Positive, Teachers' Day

“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”

Muriel Spark book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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

Smile

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

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

love, Back To Work, Romantic, For Her

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

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

Motivational, Inspirational, Wise, Deep

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”

Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress

Other material for Lily Tomlin

Funny, Valentine's Day, Wedding, Love

“We need not think alike to love alike.”

Ferenc Dávid (1510–1579) Hungarian noble

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

For Wife, love, Wise, Romantic

“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”

George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3

Inspirational, love, Wise, Deep

“You are beautiful and you are alone.”

Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars

Afraid

love, Friendship, Missing You, Relationship

“Have I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there's no one above you?
Fill my heart with gladness,
Take away my sadness,
Ease my troubles, that's what you do.”

Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician

Have I Told You Lately
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)

love, Romantic, For Her, Love

“Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

They Call Me Coach (1972)

Motivational, Inspirational, Wise, Deep

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

Walter Winchell (1897–1972) American gossip journalist

Attributed

For Wife, Inspirational, Friendship, Relationship

“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 (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.

Anniversary, Valentine's Day, For Her, Men

“A world without love would be no world.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Roman Elegies

Elegy 2
Roman Elegies (1789)

Love, World

“It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted.”

Jayne Mansfield (1933–1967) American actress, singer, model

Source: On Being Blonde (2004), p. 79

Relationship, Love, World, Feeling

“Family is the most important thing in the world.”

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

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/

For women, Family, World, Family

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought of half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

Charlotte Whitton (1896–1975) Canadian politician

Quoted in Canada Month, June 1963

For women, Powerful, Women, Men

“The friends of my friends are my friends.”

John le Carré book The Mission Song

The Mission Song (2006)

Birthday, For Wife, love, Happy

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Sharon Salzberg in an article in a magazine called “Woman of Power” in 1989
Misattributed

Deep, love, Wise, Romantic

“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

Eugene Kennedy (1928–2015) American psychologist

Eugene Kennedy, cited in: Kathy Wagoner (2002) The Promise of Friendship. p. 284

Deep, Friendship, Relationship, For Friend

“Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982).

love, Romantic, Love, Sex

“Life is not living, but living in health.”
Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.

Martial book Epigrammata

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)

Sad, love, For women, Inspirational

“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 64

Success, Happy, Problem, Happiness

“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)

love, Good Night, Romantic, Anniversary

“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

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.

love, Romantic, For Her, Love

“My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

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.

love, Romantic, For Her, Love