Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (5 page)

"Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'"
Rodney Dangerfield

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."
Barbara
DeAngelis

"For two people to please one another they must be very nearly alike, so that they may understand each other, and slightly different, so that they may have something to understand in each other."
Diane

"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."
Benjamin Disraeli

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
Benjamin Disraeli

"We are all born for love. . . . It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
Benjamin Disreali

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
John Donne

"But love’s a malady without a cure."
John Dryden

"Pains of love be sweeter far, than all other pleasures are."
John Dryden

"When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!"
John Dryden

"If you have respect and consideration for one another, you’ll make it."
Mary Durso

"No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
Albert Einstein

"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."
George Eliot

"All mankind love a lover."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife’s hatred, they are borne each of them apart."
Empedocles

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”
Euripides

"Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal."
Richard L. Evans

"Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love."
Marsilio Ficino

"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
Henry Fielding

"There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die."
Thomas Ford

"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eye."
Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.

"If people are allowed to love life, then they should also be allowed to hate it."
Brian Fox

"My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."
Jim Fox

"A man is already halfway in love with a woman who listens to him."
Brendan Francis

"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality."
Viktor Frankl

"Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession."
Benjamin Franklin

"Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults."
Benjamin Franklin

"Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail."
Richard Friedman

"Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
Erich
Fromm

"Love at the lips was touch,
As
sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.”
Robert Lee Frost

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Robert Lee Frost

"We love the things we love for what they are."
Robert Lee Frost

"Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference."
Libbie Fudim

"It's an extra dividend when you like the girl you’re in love with."
Clark Gable

"Love is a game that two can play and both win."
Eva Gabor

"A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he’s finished."
Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."
Zsa Zsa Gabor

"One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears."
Zsa Zsa Gabor

"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."
Eduardo Galeano

"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another: and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another."
Richard Garnett

"We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting."
Susa
Young Gates

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."
Theophile Gautier

"For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."
Rosemonde Gerard

"The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure."
Gibbon

"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
Kahlil Gibran

"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
Kahlil Gibran

"Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of seasons."
Kahlil Gibran

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
Kahlil Gibran

"Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth."
Eleanor di

". . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures."
Ellen Glasgow

"Romance is about the little things."
Gregory J. Godeck

"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Love is something eternal, the aspects may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it is a good lamp, but now it is shedding light, too, and that is its real function."
Vincent van Gogh

"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others."
Vincent van Gogh

"But love is many things, none of them logical."
William Goldman

"All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them."
Oliver Goldsmith

"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
Oliver Goldsmith

"Love you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy."
Charles William Gordon

"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love."
Ernesto 'Che Guevara

"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Ursula Le Guin

"Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you."
Sacha Guitry

"Someone has written, Love is a verb." It requires doing not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed."
David B. Haight

"Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
Helen Hayes

"The story of a love is not important what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”
Helen Hayes

"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love."
Helen Hayes

"Love is a hole in the heart."
Ben Hecht

"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people."
Cynthia Heimel

"If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people."
Robert A. Heinlein

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get . . .
Only with what you are expected to give. . . .
Which is everything."
Katherine Hepburn

"You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible."
Katherine Hepburn

"Love and a cough cannot be hid."
George Herbert

"The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children."
George Herbert

"I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that."
Robert Herrick

"Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed."
Cullen Hightower

"Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes."
Gene Hill

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The sound of a kiss is not
so
loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
Houssaye

"No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves."
Ed Howe

"You needn’t love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough."
Ed Howe

"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo

"Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
Zora
Neale
Hurston

"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."
Daisaku
Ikeda,

"Learn to love good books. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing."
Robert Green
Ingersoll

"The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or ever
touched,
they must be felt with the heart. We should do everything within reason to save a good relationship. But if we are constantly trying to save it, it's probably not a good relationship."
Javan

"Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it."
Jerome
Klapka
Jerome

"It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something."
Douglas Jerrold

"Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life."
Douglas William Jerrold

"Never let
a problem to be solved become
more important than a person to be loved."
Barbara Johnson