“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
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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
“There is no escape if love is not there”
Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Source: Annie Hall: Screenplay
“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
Baz Luhrmann (1962) Australian film director, screenwriter and producer
Source: Moulin Rouge!: The Splendid Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Carl Sagan book Contact
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)
“Happiness is feeling useful to others.”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
Jane Austen book Love and Freindship
Source: Love and Friendship
“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
The attribution to Shaw comes from Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71. But this quote seems more likely to come from William H. Whyte. The Biggest Problem in Communication Is the Illusion That It Has Taken Place, Quote Investigator, 2014-08-31, 2015-11-09 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/, <br class="br">Misattributed
“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.
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
Henry Winkler (1945) American actor, director and writer
“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
“You can have your cake and eat it, too.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay
“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
1914: "If…we were to go back to…'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,' there would be very few [Honourable] Gentlemen in this House who would not…be blind and toothless." — George Perry Graham, during a debate on capital punishment before the Canadian House of Commons. Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, Third Session-Twelfth Parliament, Vol CXIII, p. 496, February 5, 1914. http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC1203_01/508 <br class="br">1950: "An-eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye … ends in making everybody blind" in The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer (1950), though Fischer did not attribute it to Gandhi and seemed to be giving his own description of Gandhi's philosophy. <br class="br">1958: "The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind" in Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1958. <br class="br">1982: "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" in the 1982 film, Gandhi. In a 1993 biographical article about screenwriter John Briley, Jon Krampner wrote, "…Gandhi never said it. Michigan graduate John Briley put those pithy words in his mouth." From "John Briley '51 - Epic Screenwriter", Michigan Today, March 1993, p. 12. http://michigantoday.umich.edu/93/Mar_and_Oct_93/Mar_93/briley.html <br class="br">2006: There is a quaternary source in Yale Book of Quotations http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w5-GR-qtgXsC&pg=PA269&dq=whole-world-blind+ (2006), in which editor Fred R. Shapiro states that the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence stated that Gandhi's family believes it authentic, but did not provide any further reference and provided no year, place or body of work. <br class="br">2006: Discussed in The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When, by Ralph Keyes (2006), 1st ed., p. 74. <br class="br">2010: Research detailed by Garson O'Toole in "An Eye for an Eye Will Make the Whole World Blind" http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/27/eye-for-eye-blind/ in Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/. <br class="br">Misattributed
“The business of business is business.”
Alfred P. Sloan (1875–1966) American businessman
Widely attributed to Milton Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed
“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)
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles (1976) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 338,#6.
Misattributed
“The business of business is business.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Widely attributed to Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed
“You are beautiful and you are alone.”
Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars
Afraid
“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.”
Willa Cather book The Professor's House
Book I, Ch. 8
The Professor's House (1925)
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, xxxiii, 43.
Elegies
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell (1897–1972) American gossip journalist
Attributed
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Found anonymously in newspaper columns from the early 1920s http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/31/kiss. Originally presented in dialogue format https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5219841/safety_first/: "Dorcas—”Do you ever allow a man to kiss you when you’re out motoring with him? Philippa—"Never, if a man can drive safely while kissing me he’s not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." <br class="br">It does not seem to have been attributed to Einstein until the 1990s (e.g. here https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.freemasonry/YILn0A-U_WM/f1Grm2akU-4J). <br class="br">Misattributed
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 98
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Quoted by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington in Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington http://books.google.com/books?id=w648AAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;Friendship+may+and+often+does+grow+into+love+but+love+never+subsides+into+friendship&quot;&pg=PA179#v=onepage (1834).
“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
L’homme qui nous parle est l’amant, l’homme qui ne nous parle plus est le mari.
Part I, ch. VII.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
“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
Eugene Kennedy (1928–2015) American psychologist
Eugene Kennedy, cited in: Kathy Wagoner (2002) The Promise of Friendship. p. 284
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us.”
Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on — series polygamy — until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
