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War and Conflict Quotes

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. – Gandhi

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix

War is always the choice of the chosen who will not have to fight. – Paul D. Hewson, aka Bono

Terror is the poor man’s war, war is the rich man’s terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. – Unknown

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can’t afford an air force. – William Blum

War and Conflict QuotesBecause I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist – pirate? . You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor. – St. Augustine

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. – Jean Rostand

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. – Oscar Wilde

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. – George Orwell

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. – Ivan Illich

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

What Famous People Have to Say about Love

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – John Lennon and Paul McCartney

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis

“The best thing about me is you.” – Shannon Crown

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.” – Oscar Wilde

“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.” – St. Augustine

“All you need is love.” – John Lennon & Paul McCartney

“Love never claims, it ever gives.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” – Charles Dickens

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” – Winston Churchill

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Mark Twain

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

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

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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

“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.” – Lord Byron

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

“I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.” – Françoise Sagan

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Thomas Fuller

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

“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” – Emanuel Swedenborg

“A heart that loves is always young.” – Greek Proverb

quotes about love

Inspirational Love Quotes

Love is not a matter of counting the years – it’s making the years. – Anonymous

True love has no limits. – Mother Theresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – St. Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul. – Dr. Karl Menninger

Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. – John Lennon

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. – Octavio Paz

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion. – Unknown Author

In love, one and one are one.one – Emmet Fox

If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world . . . – William S. Burroughs

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will. – William S. Burroughs

Inspirational Love Quotes

Inspiring Quotes

I’ve selected for you 10 Inspiring Quotes for a better day. Enjoy!

“Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.” – Polly Berends

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

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

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – John Mitchell

“The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.” – Julia Alvarez

Inspiring Quotes“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” – Brian Tracy

“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” – Clare Booth Luce

“If you see a difference between where you are and where you want to be – consciously change your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.” – Neal Donald Walsch

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

What’s your favorite?

Follow your Dreams Quotes

Did you get the piece of motivation for today? No? Let me share with you some cool Follow Your Dreams Quotes :)

First, say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do. – Epictetus

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. – Jean Paul Richter

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source. – Publilius Syrus

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful. – Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. – Victor Hugo

Every man believes he has a greater possibility. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. – William Shakespeare

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. – St. Augustine

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. – Henry David Thoreau

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. – Frederick Schiller

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. – Karl von Clausewitz

We must dare to think “unthinkable” thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not fear the voice of dissent. – J. William Fulbright

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen. – Herodotus

We are all of us made more graceful by the inward presence of what we believe to be a generous purpose; our actions move to a hidden music — ‘a melody that’s sweetly pitched in tune.’ – George Eliot

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

Patience Quotes

– “Patience is the art of hoping.” – Luc De Vauvanargues

– “Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.” – Mac McCleary

– “Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.” – Unknown

– “Beware the fury of a patient man.” – John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680

– “Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.” – Ambrose Bierce

– “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones

– “Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” – George-Louis de Buffon

– “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams

– “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – St. Augustine

– “Patience is also a form of action.” – Auguste Rodin

Sweet Quotes for Lovers

“If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not ashamed of it” – Stephenie Meyer

“You can fall from the sky, You can fall from a tree, but the best way to fall is in love with me.” – Anonymous

“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.” – St. Augustine

“I’ve noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines a little brighter, and life is so much sweeter. For being with you takes me to a different place: a place called love.” – Anonymous

“No, this trick wont work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?” – Albert Einstein

“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” – Julia Roberts

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. – Agatha Christie

26 Moving Travel Quotes

1. “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

2.”Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights, it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” 
- Miriam Barr

3. “Only he that travels the road knows where the holes are deep” 
- Chinese Proverb

4. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” 
- John Hope Franklin

5. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
 – Robert Frost

6. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” 
- Maya Angelou

7. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” 
- Martin Burbur

8. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” 
- Daranna GIidel

9. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensation to read on the train.” 
- Oscar Wilde


10.”We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” 
- Unknown

11. “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” 
- St. Augustine

12. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns to find it.” 
- George Moore

13.”I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.”
 – William Hazlitt

14. “The Traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he as come to see.” 
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

15. “Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”
 – Nikos Kazantzakis

16. “The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

17. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” 
- Robert Louis Stevenson

18.”My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”
 – Diane Arbus

19. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” 
- Benjamin Disraeli

20.”A true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.” 
- Colette

21. “Travel, in the younger sort, is part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
- Francis Bacon, Sr.

22. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends”
 – Shirley Maclaine

23.”Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” 
- Miriam Beard

24. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
 – Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.”Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” 
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

26.”The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
 – G.K. Chesterton