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SOME WORTH THOUGHTS
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love..William Wordsworth I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem..W. Somerset Maugham Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face...National Lampoon, I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life...Rita Rudner I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants...A. Whitney Brown We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it...Lyndon B. Johnson If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties...Sir Francis Bacon 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..W. H. Auden Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke..Lynda Barry Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired..Robert Frost Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less..Rabbi Julius Gordon Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence..H. L. Mencken Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real..Iris Murdoch A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic..Joseph Stalin If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you..Don Marquis Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness..Bertrand Russell There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters..Alice Thomas Ellis A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her..Oscar Wilde The love of truth lies at the root of much humor..Robertson Davies First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time..Honore de Balzac Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic..Anais Nin Love is friendship set on fire.- Jeremy Taylor - To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven..Karen Sunde Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.- Jeanne Moreau - There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.- George Sand - Give all to love; obey thy heart..Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit..Peter Ustinov One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love..Sophocles To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others..Anne-Sophie Swetchine When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully..W. Somerset Maugham Love is a never ending feeling.- Adeil Prince - When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece..John Ruskin Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.- John Lyly - To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?..Katharine Graham Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.- Lisa Hoffman - Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved..Victor Hugo There is no remedy for love but to love more..Henry David Thoreau The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves..William Hazlitt To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides - David Viscott - Life isn't long enough for love and art..W. Somerset Maugham He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals..Benjamin Franklin True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked..Erich Segal Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die..Amelia Burr It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not..Andre Gide A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest..Pearl Bailey Came but for friendship, and took away love.- Thomas Moore - Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them..Robert C. Pollock When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.- Elizabeth Bowen - 'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive..John Sheffield Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love..Socrates Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love..Spanish Proverb Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command..Alan Watts Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.- Amy Bloom - Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue..John Dryden May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is..Hadewijch of Antwerp Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely..William Penn We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together. - Brian Andres - Your words are my food, your breath is my wine. You are everything to me. - Sarah Bernhardt - Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down. Love is watchful and sleeping, slumbereth not. Though weary, it is not tired; though pressed, it is not straitened; though alarmed, it is not confounded... - Thomas A. Kempis - Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding..Bette Davis Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair..C. S. Lewis One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that..Norman Mailer Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough..Dinah Shore One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life..Alexander A. Bogomoletz As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change... I will always keep falling in love with you. - Karen Clodfelder - Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul. - Unknown - Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost..Thomas J. Watson |
