Words of Wisdom
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark
Tag: path
The path is not straight
1. the path is not straight.
2. mistakes need not be fatal.
3. people are more important than achievements or possessions.
4. be gentle with your parents.
5. never stop doing what you care most about.
6. learn to use a semicolon.
7. you will find love.
Mother Quotes
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” ~Milton Berle
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” ~Victor Hugo
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” ~William Makepeace Thackeray
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.’ ~Irish Proverb
“God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.” ~Rudyard Kipling
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” ~Aristotle
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” ~Agatha Christie
“No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.” ~Harry Truman
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” ~Joseph Stefano
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” ~Sophocles
“Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.” ~Ann Taylor
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” ~Washington Irving
Love Quotes
“The path of love is not the path of comfort. It means going forward into the unknown, with no guarantees of safety, even though you’re afraid. Trusting is dangerous, but without trust there is no hope for love, and love is all we ever have to hold against the dark…Love is worth nothing until tested against its own defeat.” – Creina Alcock
“Love is the beauty of the soul.” – St. Augustine
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
“Love is the burning point of life, and because life is suffering so is love.” – Joseph Campbell
“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” – Jonathan Carroll
“Love never hurts you. Its not loving yourself that hurts you.” – Barbara De Angelis
“For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love – this is an old rule.” – Dhammapada
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.” – George Eliot
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'” – Erich Fromm
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran “The Prophet”
“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup… Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone thought they quiver with the same music.” – Kahlil Gibran “The Prophet”
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
“So I will share this room with you
And you can have this heart to break.” – Billy Joel “So It Goes”
“You may be right
I may be crazy.
But I just may be a lunatic you’re looking for.” – Billy Joel
When you press me to your heart
I’m in a world apart
A world where roses bloom – La Vie En Rose
“Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions.” – D.H. Lawrence
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me like you’ll never let me go – Leaving on a Jet Plane
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” – Anne-Sophie Swetchine
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it, and no limit is set.” – Mother Teresa
“You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of man.” – Thomas Traherne
“We tend to wear suits of armor, one over the other… We hope we will not have to completely undress.” – Chogyam Trungpa