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I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. – Marilyn Monroe
1. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
2. “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right.”
3. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
4. “Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together”
5. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”
6. “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”
7. “This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth.”
8. ” Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will”
9. “If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere.”
10. “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
11. “We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.”
12. “I restore myself when I’m alone.”
“3 things I want in a relationship: eyes that won’t cry, lips than won’t lie, and love that won’t die.” – Wiz Khalifa
“I know they say that first love is the sweetest, but that first cut is the deepest.” – Drake
“Seven days without love makes one weak.” – Drake
“Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.” – Author Unknown
“I want a real relationship; not a facebook one.” – Author Unknown
“The hardest thing about realizing you don’t love me is that you spent so much time pretending that you did.” – Author Unknown
“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.” – Marilyn Monroe
“If two past lovers can remain friends, it’s either they are still in love, or never were.” – Author Unknown
“Today I caught myself smiling for no reason…then I realized I was thinking about you.” – Author Unknown
“Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.” – Author Unknown
“I just want you that’s it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you.” – Sara Quin
“Never date someone who still has feelings for their ex, it’s just a perfect scenario for your heart to get broken.” – Author Unknown
“You may be far away, but it does not change the way I look at you.” – Author Unknown
“If you fight like a married couple, talk like best friends, flirt like first loves, and protect each other like siblings it’s meant to be.” – Author Unknown
“Sometimes the best revenge is to smile, move on, and do nothing.” – Author Unknown
“Don’t leave someone just because you argue a lot. Arguing is the key to fixing all of your problems and it shows that you both actually care.” – Author Unknown
Some of my favorite witty quotes just here, for you.
His mouth is a no-go area. It’s like kissing the Berlin Wall – Helena Bonhem Carter on Woody Allen
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. – Henry Kissinger
He has a face like a Saint – A Saint Bernard. – Unknown
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstien, but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. – Tom Shale on Robin Williams
If I found her floating in my pool, I’d punish my dog. – Joan Rivers on Yoko Ono
God does not play dice with the universe. – Albert Einstien
She is as wholesome as a bowl of cornflakes and at least as sexy. – Dwight McDonald on Doris Day
If you can’t convince them, confuse them. – President Harry S Truman
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. – W C Fields
He had the compassion of an icicle and the generosity of a pawnbroker. – S J Perelman on Groucho Marx
Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. – Abbey Hoffman
Who picks your clothes – Stevie Wonder? – Don Rickles
Breasts like Granite and a brain like Swiss Cheese – Billy Wilder on Marilyn Monroe
The thief of bad gags. – Walter Winchell on Milton Berne
I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born – Ronald Reagan
He’s proof that there’s life after death. – Mort Sahl on Ronald Reagan
The only genius with an IQ of 60. – Gore Vidal on Andy Warhol
He’s so ugly they ought to donate his face to the world wildlife fund. – Muhammad Ali on Joe Frazier
She’s so stupid she returns bowling balls because they’ve got holes in them. – Joan Rivers on Bo Derek
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. – Bob Wells
Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little. – Screen Tester on Fred Astaire
An empty suit that goes to funerals and plays golf. – Ross Perot on Dan Quayle
Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper. – Rex Reed on Marlon Brando
He could start a row in an empty house – Sir Alex Ferguson on footballer Dennis Wise
When Kissinger can get the Nobel Peace Prize, what is there left for satire? – Tom Lehrer on Henry Kissinger
Shaw writes his plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. – George Nathan on George Bernard Shaw
He is to acting what Liberace was to pumping iron. – Rex Reed on Sylvester Stallone
What makes him think a middle aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics? – Ronald Reagan commenting on Eastwood’s bid to become mayor of Carmel
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. – Shakespeare
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts
You have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. – Patrick Overton
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. – Maya Angelou
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein
So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. – Marilyn Monroe
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. –Maya Angelou
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. – Harrison Ford
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett
After a great piece of Short Tattoo Quotes, let me share with you some Short Love Quotes. Please enjoy, share, and tell us what’s your favorite from this list.
“Love makes time pass; time makes love pass” – French Proverb
“It is not love, but lack of love which is blind” – Glenway Wescott
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity” – George Bernard Shaw
“The hottest love has the coldest end” – Socrates
“Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate” – Unknown
“He who is not impatient is not in love” – Italian Proverb
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder” – William Shakespeare
“Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener” – Pauline Thomason
“Better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all” – Hemmingway
“The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most” – Kati
“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile” – Elizabeth Browning
“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left” – Marilyn Monroe
“Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end” – Ancient Proverbs
“Live the life you’ve dreamed” – Henry David Thoreau
“Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful” – Unknown
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear” – John Lennon
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them” – Mother Teresa
“I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you” – Roy Croft
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world” – Heather Cortez
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime” – Bette Davis
“If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go” – Unknown
“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams” – Dr. Seuss
“The best thing about me is you” – Shannon Crown
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death” – Thomas Mann
”Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy. ” Audre Lorde
”It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
”True love stories never have endings. ” Richard Bach
”In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ” Erich Fromm
”In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. ” Madame de Stael
”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 whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s. ” Madame de Stael
”If you want to be loved, be lovable. ” Ovid
”Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ” C. S. Lewis
”Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. ” William Arthur Ward
”If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ” Michel de Montaigne
”A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. ” Boethius
”Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ” Maya Angelou
”If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ” A. A. Milne
”A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ” Stendhal
”Love is a better teacher than duty. ” Albert Einstein
”If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ” Emmet Fox
”If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ” Maya Angelou
”I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ” George Eliot
”Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. ” Ella Fitzgerald
”I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ” Daphne Rae
”What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ” Nathaniel Hawthorne
”I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ” Judy Garland
”A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ” Honore de Balzac
”A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. ” Marilyn Monroe
”How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ” Barbara Pym
”All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. ” Andre Breton
”Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ” Peter Ustinov
”Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ” Albert Einstein
”If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ” John Lennon
”Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. ” Charles Caleb Colton
”Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. ” Rita Rudner
”One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ” Sophocles
”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
”Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. ” Martin Luther King, Jr.
”First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ” George Bernard Shaw
”A life lived in love will never be dull. ” Leo Buscaglia
”Do all things with love. ” Og Mandino
”The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. ” Vincent van Gogh
”Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. ” Samuel Lover
”Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ” Rumi
”Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ” Richard Bach
”At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ” Plato
”Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. ” C. S. Lewis
”A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ” Thomas Carlyle
– “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” – Buddha
– “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
– “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” – Buddha
– “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha
– “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” – Buddha
– “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” – Buddha
– “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” – Buddha
– “Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.” – Marilyn Monroe
– “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” – Marilyn Monroe
– “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
– “The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” – Maya Angelou
– “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” – Albert Einstein
– “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln
– “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” – Winston Churchill
– “The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” – Winston Churchill
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” – Winston Churchill
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” – Mark Twain
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” – C. S. Lewis
– “We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.” – Benjamin Franklin
– “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi
– “Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
– “The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
– “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon
– “And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.”
– “And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn’t necessarily given to me, and that people didn’t necessarily think that I would be able to do.”
– “And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I’d be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.”
– “At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.”
– “At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.”
– “Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.”
– “Hey, I’m a girl, and we like to play dress-up.”
– “I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.”
– “I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.”
– “I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”
– “I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don’t look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don’t think of them as like Charlize Theron films.”
– “I guess there are very few actors that I’ve worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you’ll have that chance and, if we didn’t do Italian Job together, there wouldn’t be another one that could be right.”
– “I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.”
– “I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it’s hard for me not to. I guess I’ve been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.”
– “I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it’s maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.”
– “I like what I do, and I’m very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don’t have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.”
– “I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
Charlize Theron
– “I mean, I’m new but I’ve always been very interested in film making process and I’ve been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested – that the producer part of me was natural.”
– “I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.”
– “I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.”
