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Sweet Quotes About Love

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– “Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost

– “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo

– “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

– “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde

– “There are a million things in the world I want, but all I need is you.” – Anonymous

– “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse

– “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – Shakespeare

– “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

– “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

– “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato

Famous People Quotes #9

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“It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.” – Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” – Robert Orben

“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.” – Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

“There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” – Revelation 6:8

“Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.” – Plato (427-347 B.C.)

“Plato was a bore.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.” – Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

“I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.” – Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

“Hemingway was a jerk.” – Harold Robbins

“Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.”
– Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)

“What about things like bullets?” – Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)

“How can I lose to such an idiot?” – A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)

“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.” – Woody Allen (1935-)

“I don’t feel good.” – The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

“Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure.” – Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)

“Men have become the tools of their tools.” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.” – Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines

“I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.” – Gore Vidal

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.” – Woody Allen (1935-)

“Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.” – Abba Eban (1915-2002)

“A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.” – Abba Eban (1915-2002)

“To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.” – Charles William Stubbs

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.” – George Santayana (1863-1952)

“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.” – Fred Allen (1894-1956)

“Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.” – Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

“Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

“Why don’t you write books people can read?” – Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” – T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.” – Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.” – Tom Stoppard

“Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.” – Karl Wallenda

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu

“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” – Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)

” The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

“Never mistake motion for action.” – Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” – Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)

“Hell is paved with good samaritans.” – William M. Holden

Lao Tzu Quotes

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– “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”

– “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

– “A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”

– “All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”

– “Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.”

– “An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”

– “Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.”

– “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– “Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

– “Be the chief but never the lord.”

– “Because of a great love, one is courageous.”

– “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

– “By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.”

– “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

– “Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.”

– “From caring comes courage.”

– “From wonder into wonder existence opens.”

– “Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.”

– “Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.”

– “Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

Top 10 Motivational Quotes for Today

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1. “I am who I choose to be” – Lois McMaster Bujold

2. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

3. “Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves” – Zig Ziglar

4. “One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. «Which road do I take?», she asked. «Where do you want to go?», was his response. «I don’t know», Alice answered. «Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter»” – Lewis Carrol

5. “It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going” – Brian Tracy

6. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential” – Winston Churchill

7. “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs” – Henry Ford

8. “The future is always beginning now” – Mark Strand

9. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past” – Oscar Wilde

10. “If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon” – Doug Rader