“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Heart Touching quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of for boyfriend, heart touching, love, love.
Best heart touching quotes
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Heart Touching quotes
“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Variant: Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
'Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62; many statements in this book, or slight variants of them, were also part of his address Where Do We Go From Here?" which has a section below. A common variant appearing at least as early as 1968 has "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence..." An early version of the speech as published in A Martin Luther King Treasury (1964), p. 173, has : "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate..."
1960s
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. … Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
Variant: Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.
Source: Love and Living
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer
Source: Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“There are no have-to's, just choices”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“There is, in the end, the letting go.”
Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Variant: Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Attributed to Einstein by his colleague Léopold Infeld in his book Quest: An Autobiography (1949), p. 291 http://books.google.com/books?id=fsvXYpOSowkC&q=%22garbage+man%22#v=snippet&q=%22garbage%20man%22&f=false <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above. <br class="br">Disputed
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Keep+love+in+your+heart+a+life+without+it+is+like+a+sunless+garden+when+the+flowers+are+dead+the+consciousness+of+loving+and+being+loved+brings+a+warmth+and+richness+to+life+that+nothing+else+can+bring%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage (1952)
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Carlos Castaneda book Journey to Ixtlan
Variant: We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same
Source: Journey to Ixtlan
“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
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
“When you know better… You do better.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
Stephen King book The Shining
Source: The Shining (1977)
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Variant: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.
“It's your life-but only if you make it so.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
Terry Pratchett book The Last Continent
General sources
Variant: It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. This is in fact true. It's called living.
Source: The Last Continent
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variant: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Context: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Variant: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
Misattributed
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer
“You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Variant: You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“The love that is not all pain is not all love.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El amor que no es todo dolor, no es todo amor.
Voces (1943)
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut book Mother Night
Introduction (1966)
Sometimes misquoted as: Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Mother Night (1961)
“The important thing is to be nothing.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
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)
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
As quoted in The 32d Infantry Division in World War II (1956) by Harold Whittle Blakeley, p. 3
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator
“The opportunity of your life, it's you.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) L'occasione della tua vita, sei tu.
Source: prevale.net
“It's not dark yet, but it's getting there…”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet
Variant: It's not dark yet, but it's getting there...
“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
https://www.facebook.com/11777366210/posts/10159064721041211/?
“I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.”
Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist
“…if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
Variant: ... if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Source: Les Misérables
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief
Source: The Lightning Thief
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
Variant: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
“May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.”
Kate Forsyth (1966) Australian writer
Source: The Witches of Eileanan
“I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook
Variant: I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday
Source: The Notebook
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Misattributed
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”
Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Source: Morrie: In His Own Words
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
“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
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
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Letter to his Wife (April 29 1812).
“You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
“Happiness is feeling useful to others.”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Dr. Seuss book Happy Birthday to You!
Variant: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Source: Happy Birthday to You!
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist
Source: Homeland and Other Stories
“And so on to the end of the chapter.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 10.
“Either you will be you or you will not be at all.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“The Knight,” p. 81
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “What After”