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Philosophical Quotes

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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop

Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying. ~Baba Ram Dass

I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

There’s more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee

When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb

A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau

Before enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn

Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu

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Love Quotes

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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Khalil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. – Maurice Maeterlinck

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

I’ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them. – Anonymous

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you. – Margaret Atwood

Parting is such sweet sorrow. – William Shakespeare

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Anonymous

If I hadn’t met you, I wouldn’t like you.
If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you.
If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will. – Anonymous

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it. – Anonymous

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is never good dwelling on good-byes … it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. – Elizabeth Bibesco

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

10 Famous Wisdom Quotes

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

2. Where there is love, there is pain. – Spanish Proverb

3. It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

4. Comedy is an escape not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

5. I like a man who grins when he fights. – Winston Churchill

6. Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile. – Deng Ming-Dao

7. Anyone can hate. It costs to love. – John Williamson

8. True is the grief you carry without witnesses. – Marcus Martialis

9. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx

10. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – H. L. Mencken

Famous Quotes

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. –Mahatma Gandhi

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. – Albert Camus

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future. –Bob Dylan

Happiness depends upon ourselves. –Aristotle

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. –Albert Einstein

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader –Aristotle

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. –Mahatma Gandhi

Nature does nothing uselessly. –Aristotle

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. –Benjamin Franklin

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. –Einstein

You must be the change you want to see in the world. –Ghandi

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. –Aristotle

We are disturbed not by events, but by the views that we take of them –Epictetus

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” –Ghandi

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. –Benjamin Franklin

Imagination is more important than knowledge. –Albert Einstein

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. –Aristotle

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. –Mahatma Gandhi

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales –Einstein

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. –Aristotle

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. –Isaac Asimov

The resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. –Friedrich Nietzsche

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. –George Bernard Shaw

We are what we repeatedly do. –Aristotle

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. –Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. –Benjamin Franklin

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. –Rita Mae Brown

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
We are a part of the earth and it is part of us. –Chief Seattle

The price of greatness is responsibility. –Churchill

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. –Ludwig Börne

I am a part of all that I have seen. –Alfred Lord Tennyson

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. –Friedrich Nietzsche

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.  –Friedrich Nietzsche

Peace is the diploma you get in the cemetery. – Peter Tosh

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. – Peter Tosh

I think it is better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should be maleable and progressive, working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas cannot generate. Life becomes stagnant. –George Carlin

Our outlook on life is a kind of paintbrush, and with it we paint our world. It can be bright and filled with hope and satisfaction, or it can be dark and gloomy. – Earl Nightingale

Our environment, the world in which we find ourselves living and working, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. – Earl Nightingale

Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find you cannot eat money –Cree Prophecy

Feeling Lonely Quotes

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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? – George Eliot

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. – Brendan Francis Behan

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. – Mason Cooley

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – Henry David Thoreau

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear. – Anonymous

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Albert Einstein

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? – Judy Garland

If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. – Martha Beck

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. – Doug Coupland

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. – Jean-Paul Sartre

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer

If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny. – Larry David

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. – Paul Theroux

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. – Jules Renard

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

Silence is a source of great strength. – Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

Romantic Love Quotes

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Love them as they are, and forgive them everything. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your love is more powerful than your words or your actions. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and you. – Omar Khayyam

Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul. – Omar Khayyam

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? – Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. – Khalil Gibran

And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. – Khalil Gibran

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved. – Khalil Gibran

Love is the veil between lover and lover. – Khalil Gibran

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you.
If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you.
If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will. – Anonymous

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. – William Shakespeare

Love is blind. – William Shakespeare

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel. – Anonymous

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. – Anonymous

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear. – Anonymous

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it. – Anonymous

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. – Swedish Proverb

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – William Shakespeare

True love has no limits. – Anonymous

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. – Brandi Snyder

Who, being loved, is poor? – Oscar Wilde

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. – Judy Garland

When love is not madness, it is not love. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Brief is life but love is long. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Roy Croft

All you need is love. – John Lennon

Don’t fall for looks, they can deceive. Don’t fall for wealth, in the end it fades away. Find someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. – Anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. – St. Francis of Assisi

Cute Love Quotes #4

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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss

Love is not something you feel. It’s something you do. – David Wilkerson

Love is loving what your lover loves. – Anonymous

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. – Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz’ Peanuts comic

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. – Mae West

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question. – Lily Tomlin

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. – Erich Segal

Love is a grave mental disease. – Plato

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. – Anonymous

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? – Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)