Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.-Henri Frederic Amiel
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.-Sam Keen
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.-Mother Teresa
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.-Kurt Cobain
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.-Plato
The mistakes of the **** are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.-Charles Caleb Colton
I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.-Michael Jordan
Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.-William A. Ward
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles, The Third Man, 1949
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tze
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
Unknown
Love, looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Shakespeare
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Unknown
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Michael Bridge
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.
Frederick Buechner
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Anna Louise Strong
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
