Quotes

 

Life is to be fortified by many friendships.
To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith

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Once man understands that he is caught up in a blind energy, he transcends it.
There is light in the darkness.
Michael Harrington, The Accidental Century

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We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.
Aesop, "The Kites and the Swans"

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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clarity before he decides, never decides.
Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
Dante, The Inferno, canto 5

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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that
the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy.
I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame.
How can one blush for what one adores?
George Sand

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which
there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Kierkegaard

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Igor Stravinsky, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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You chose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you
call your personal experience.
Richard Bach, Running From Safety

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard W. Newton

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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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We don't know each other's secrets quite so well as we flatter ourselves we do.
We don't always know our own secrets as well as we might.
Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table

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Jealousy instinctively arouses anger; and anger, rationalized, becomes moral disapproval.
Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not A Christian

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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bull-fights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on
earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his heaven on earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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We strain and strive, we die for love; we linger in the lusty fight; We agonize, our clutch becomes
more cruel and more murderous.
Aleister Crowley, "The Winged Beetle"

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It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell, "Justine"

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Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one which arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Le Rochefoucauld, "Maxims"

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Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
Longfellow, "Hyperion"

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To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy."
Anwar El-Sadat, "'The Liberation of Self' -- Cell 54," In Search of Identity

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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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It is not enough to conquer; one must know how to seduce.
Voltaire, "Merope,"

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It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.
Morton Irving Seiden, The Paradox of Hate

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There is nothing either good or bad; but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find
that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Merle Shan

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Thus it appears that men desire some things more than life, and hate some things more than death. And it is not only the virtuous man who has such feelings: all men have them. What distinguishes the virtuous man is
 that he can keep those feelings from being stifled within him.
Mengzi Meng-tse (Mencius)

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The feeling of compassion is the origin of humaneness; the feeling of shame is the origin of righteousness; the feeling of consideration for others is the origin of good manners; the feeling of right and wrong is the origin of wisdom.
Mengzi Meng-tse (Mencius)

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If you love something, let it go. But not too far.
Anonymous

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman - The Princess Bride

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I dislike death, but there are things that I dislike more than death. Therefor there are occasions when I will not avoid danger.
Mencius

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Cicero

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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain

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Dreams will always come true for those that believe they will. They only need to follow them.
Bob Hope

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