Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (4 page)

"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk."
Anonymous

"Sometimes a new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there."
Anonymous

"Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts."
Anonymous

"The heart that loves is always young."
Anonymous

"The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance."
Anonymous

"'
Tis
better to have loved and lost, then paid for it and not liked it."
Anonymous

"To be loved is to live forever in someone's heart."
Anonymous

"To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; To teach and never be weary is love."
Anonymous

"To love something is to give it room enough to grow."
Anonymous

"True love is the outward demonstration of inward conviction."
Anonymous

"We can do no great thing, only small things, with great love."
Anonymous

"We learn to love that to which we give our time."
Anonymous

"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving."
Anonymous

"What is Love?
It's silence when your words would hurt,
It's patience when your neighbor’s curt,
It's defense when the scandal flows,
It's thoughtfulness for another’s woes,
It's promptness when stern duty calls,
It's courage when misfortune falls.”
Anonymous

"What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and the grace and tenderness of it; not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge, grand as knowledge is, but just the laughter of children, and the friendship of friends, and the cozy talk by the fire, and sight of flowers, and the sound of music."
Anonymous

"When you find a job you love, you'll never have to work a day in your life."
Anonymous

"When you love somebody, you should follow your heart. Sometimes when you are with the person you love the most, you feel confused. You don’t know who you are or what you want but that is totally understandable. It is natural to let go of a part of yourself to be with that person but the important part is that you don’t lose your own identity in the process!"
Anonymous

"Where we love is truly home; home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
Anonymous

"Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough."
Anonymous

"Without loving acts, loving words are meaningless."
Anonymous

"Work is love made visible."
Anonymous

"You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much."
Anonymous

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love."
Anonymous

"You've got to dance like no one's watching and love like it's never going to hurt."
Anonymous

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
Jean
Anouilh

"Things are beautiful if you love them."
Jean
Anouilh

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
Jnos
Arany

"To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose is the next best thing."
Maximillian
Arturo

"Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood."
Elizabeth Ashley

"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."
Elizabeth Ashley

"Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations."
Marvin J. Ashton

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
Wysten
Hugh
Auden

"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus

"It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and
lost .
."
Richard David Bach

"Respect for sovereignty, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love."
Richard David Bach

"A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Francis Bacon

"It is impossible to love and be wise."
Francis Bacon

"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love."
Philip James Bailey

"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."
Lynda Barry

"True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing."
Leanna
L.
Bartram

"Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood."
Louise Beal

"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."
Pierre
Augustin
Caron de
Beaumarchais

"Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak
approving,
cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them."
Henry Ward Beecher

"We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents."
Henry Ward Beecher

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
Brendan
Behan

"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
Aphra
Behn

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
Josh Billings

"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
Josh Billings

"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."
William Blake

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."
William Blake

"The secret of art is love."
Antoine
Bourdelle

"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."
Christian
Nestell
Bove

"Our first and last love is self-love."
Christian
Nestell
Bove

"When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy."
Brahman

"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

"After observing the loved and the unloved, we found the loved ones rarely tried to manipulate others."
W. W. Broadbent

"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule."
Anita
Brookner

"The best proof of love is trust."
Dr. Joyce Brothers

"No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along."
Dr. Joyce Brothers

"The ability to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts."
Heywood Campbell
Broun

"To love is to transform; to be a poet."
Norman O. Brown

"Who so loves believes the impossible."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning

"Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower."
William Cullen Bryant

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule."
Siddhartha
Guatama
Buddha

"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"Had we never loved
sae
kindly
,
Had we never loved
sae
blindly,
Never met or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted!"
Robert Burns

"To see her is to love her
,
And love but her forever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made
anither
!"
Robert Burns

"No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread."
Robert Burns

"No happiness is like unto it, no love
so
great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife."
Robert Burton

"Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness."
Theodore M. Burton

"A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?"
"Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?"
How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, "I'm drinking it, aren't I?"
Love still needs expression between those who share it."
Leo
Buscaglia

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time . . . It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."
Leo
Buscaglia

"The person who has earned love the least needs it the most."
F.
Enzio
Busche

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
Comte de
Bussy-Rabutin

"
L'amour
vient
de
l'aveuglement
,
l'amitie
de la
connaissance
. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)"
Comte de
Bussy-Rabutin

"It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all.”
Samuel Butler

"All love at first, like generous wine
,
Ferments and frets until
tis
fine;
But when
tis
settled on the lee,
And from the
impurer
matter free,
Becomes the richer still the older,
And proves the pleasanter the colder."
Samuel Butler, the older

"To live is like love, all reason is against
it,
and all healthy instinct for it."
Samuel Butler, the younger

"Respect is love in plain clothes."
Frankie Byrne

"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."
George Gordon, Lord Byron

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence."
George Gordon, Lord Byron

"Love is so much better when you are not married."
Maria Callas

"The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself."
Albert
Camus

"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip."
Jonathan Carroll

"
France
is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door."
Barbara
Cartland

"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough."
Dr. George Washington Carver

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."
Willa
Sibert
Cather

"Love not what you are, but what you may become."
Miguel de Cervantes

"Love, such as in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the contact of two bodies."
Sabastien
Chamfort

"To love is to approach each other center to center."
Pierre
Teilhard
de
Chardin

"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is
undisguisable
."
John
Cheever

"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"
Confucius

"He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning."
Confucius

"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile."
Sean Connery

"Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved."
George
Crabbe

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
Joan Crawford