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		Click on a quote to preview and customize it. Pick a Category. Select "All" to show all quotes (this is the default). Art and Music A musician must make music, an artist must paint. A poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. ~ Henri Matisse Art is a jealous mistress. ~ Emerson Art is Long, Life is Short. ~ Hippocrates Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. ~ Frank Zappa Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein No artist is ahead of his time, he is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. The fact that no one understands you doesn't make you an artist. The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. ~ T. S. Eliot Those who hear not the music, think the dancers mad. What one can be, one must be. When words fail, I let the music speak. Business and Education->Business Inspirations A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~ Duke Ellington Dance like nobody's watching. Laugh like no one is listening. Love like you can't be hurt. Live life like it's heaven on Earth. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Don't wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Half the fun is getting there. Hold on to your dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. ~ Emerson It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. ~ Emerson Live the life you have imagined. ~ Thoreau Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ~ Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Emerson Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. ~ Emerson Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Success automatically happens when your Passion also becomes your Profession. Success is not the key to happiness; Happiness is the key to success. The last temptation is the greatest reason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ~ T. S. Eliot The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ~ George Eliot This is not the end, but it is the road. ~ Martin Luther Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ~ Emerson We cannot change the direction of the wind... but we can adjust our sails. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ Emerson Whatever you are by nature, keep to it. Never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. Business and Education->Educational Inspirations A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. ~ Charles R. Darwin All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ~ Albert Einstein As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles W. Eliot Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Education is not a form of entertainment, but a means of empowering people to take control of their lives. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one ~ Malcolm Forbes Five out of four people have trouble with fractions. Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day; Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught. ~ Sir Winston Churchill I don't believe in mathematics. ~ Albert Einstein If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything. ~ Abraham Lincoln If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ~ Abigail Adams Mathematicians don't crack jokes, they crack codes. Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. Mathematics is written for mathematicians. ~ Nicholaus Copernicus Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~ Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ~ Albert Einstein Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Reading unlocks doors. Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. ~ JFK The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~ Mark Twain The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ~ Albert Einstein The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live. ~ John Adams Tis the good reader that makes the good book. ~ Emerson To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains. To teach is to touch a life. A caring teacher touches the lives of many. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing towards it. The process is not yet finished, but it is going on. This is not the end, but it is the road. ~ Martin Luther We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~ Albert Einstein You can't learn anything with your mouth open. Business and Education->Good for Business Early to bed, early to rise, Work like hell and advertise. ~ Ted Turner Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~ Albert Schweitzer It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ Moliere It's a poor workman who blames his tools. It's easier to do a job right than explain why you didn't. Just do what you do best. May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us - yes, establish the work of our hands. ~ Psalm 90:17 Never settle for anything less than your best. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Our success is measured by your satisfaction. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. Success is not the key to happiness; Happiness is the key to success. The purpose of a business is to create and keep customers. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. ~ Einstein Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. ~ Colossians 3:23-24 Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Your wife called, she said you can buy anything you want. Business and Education->Motivation Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Emerson Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~ Will Rogers Every artist was first an amateur. ~ Emerson Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. ~ Albert Schweitzer I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities. If not now, when? If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got. If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view. If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. ~ Emerson It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. Let your natural inclination be road sign that will take you to your destiny. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves. Nothing is as real as a dream. People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them. Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. The ancestor of every action is a thought. ~ Emerson The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. The greater thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are going. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ~ Emerson The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it, duties need not obscure it, because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. They build too low who build beneath the skies. This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. ~ Emerson To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. We must walk toward goals instead of running away from our problems. What we see depends mainly on what we look for. You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do. Business and Education->Professions (Optometrist's Office) If you don't see what you're looking for you've come to the right place. A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation. A pediatrician is a man known to have very little patients. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it uses up a thousand times more memory. A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Accountant: anyone who can add the same column of figures five times in a row and come up with five different tax deductions. Accountants are top dollar! Accountants work their assets off! Acupuncture: a jab well done! Amazing electrician: Wired for excellence! An accountant is a well-balanced person! Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. B-Gauze I care! Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~ Mark Twain Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you. Dentist: A prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets. Dentist: medical professional who helps you put your money where your mouth is. Dentists get to the root of the problem. Dentists put teeth into their work. Everything in excess is opposed to nature. ~ Hippocrates Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. ~ Einstein For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently. ~ Shakespeare God heals and the Doctor takes the fee. ~ Benjamin Franklin He cures most in whom most have faith. He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. How unfair! Only one health, and so many diseases. Hygienists brighten the world one smile at a time! If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. ~ Albert Einstein Ignore your teeth and they'll go away. It takes a lot of patients to be a successful doctor. It's probably just a rash. I'm an accountant... not a magician! Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. ~ Hippocrates Old accountants never die, they just lose their balance. Old cardiac surgeons never die, they just get bypassed. OLD DENTISTS never die, they just get down in the mouth OLD DENTISTS never die, they just lose their pull. Old doctors never die, they just lose their patients. Old electricians never die, they just lose contact. Orthodontists straighten things out! Plastic Surgeons can help you pick your nose! Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered. The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required on it. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ~ Einstein The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done to-day. ~ Abraham Lincoln The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ~ Hippocrates The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible. The mediocre teacher tells, The good teacher explains, The superior teacher demonstrates, The great teacher inspires. The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. ~ Shakespeare The practice of medicine is not only a science; it is an art. It deals with the very process of life. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate ditches. ~ C.S. Lewis The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. The Whole Tooth, And Nothing But the Tooth! There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. ~ David Letterman TOOTHACHE: The pain that drives you to extraction. You blend gentleness with skill. You are a physician with a heart as well as a head. You can pay people to teach, but you can't pay them to care. You don't have to brush your teeth - just the ones you want to keep. Young and old, large and small, We treat them well and love them all. You're a dentist that makes a good impression! Business and Education->Success A person's probability of success is directly proportional to the belief and execution of their abilities. Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. ~ Brian Tracy Be a great listener. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers. ~ Brian Tracy Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. ~ Brian Tracy Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there. Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy! ~ Brian Tracy Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear. ~ Brian Tracy Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, for those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~ Bill Cosby I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. ~ General George S. Patton If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. ~ Emerson Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible. ~ Brian Tracy Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit. It's not the load that breaks you down; It's the way you carry it. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Listen a hundred times, Ponder a thousand times, Speak once. Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it. ~ Brian Tracy My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil. ~ Paul Getty Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ~ Emerson Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good that we oft may win, By fearing to attempt. ~ Shakespeare People don't plan to fail; They just fail to plan. ~ Zig Zigler People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. People with goals succeed, because they know where they're going. Plan your work, Then work your plan. ~ Zig Zigler Private victories precede public victories. Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything. ~ Brian Tracy Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~ Emerson Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. Success consists of getting up just one more time than you've fallen down. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~ General George Patton Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey. Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. ~ T. S. Eliot Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ~ Booker T. Washington Success... it's what you do with what you've got. The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. ~ Brian Tracy The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves. ~ Brian Tracy The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential. The road to success is always under construction. The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of you life. If you don't, life controls you. ~ Anthony Robbins The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. ~ Einstein There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. ~ Colin Powell Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. ~ Brian Tracy Truth is what stands the test of experience. ~ Einstein Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. ~ Einstein Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. ~ Brian Tracy When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute a chance to lose it. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. ~ Emerson Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision. ~ Brian Tracy Famous Quotes A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ~ Emerson All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for. ~ Mother Teresa Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ~ Benjamin Franklin Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ~ Albert Einstein Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person. ~ Mother Teresa Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~ Mark Twain Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. ~ Albert Einstein Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~ Thomas Edison God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct. ~ Noah Webster Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~ Thoreau I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~ Mother Teresa I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. ~ Abraham Lincoln I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness. ~ Mother Teresa I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody to no one. ~ Mother Teresa I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~ Mother Teresa I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ~ Duke Ellington If passion drives, let reason hold the reins. ~ Benjamin Franklin If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~ Mother Teresa If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~ Mother Teresa If you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything. ~ Mark Twain Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. ~ Mark Twain It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. ~ Mother Teresa Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~ Mother Teresa Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. ~ Thoreau Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ~ Mother Teresa Never worry about numbers, help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. ~ Mother Teresa People with great minds talk about ideas. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt People with small minds talk about people. People with average minds talk about events. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~ Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. ~ Abraham Lincoln The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. ~ C.S. Lewis The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ~ Albert Einstein Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual development, we must make of it a brotherhood. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. To err is human; To forgive, divine. ~ Benjamin Franklin To have courage for whatever comes in life; everything lies in that. ~ Mother Teresa To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. ~ Albert Einstein What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Indira Gandhi Home and Family->Babies and Children A daughter is love in a bright pink bow, a bundle of happiness all aglow. A precious new baby has come from above, to live in your hearts to fill you with love. A sweet little treasure sent from above, a coo and a smile wrapped up in love. A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love. Babies are angels whose wings grow shorter as their legs grow longer. Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life. Childhood, whose very happiness is love. Children are an heritage of the Lord. ~ Psalm 127:3 Diapers and bottles and bibs, oh my! Everything in life I share except of course my teddy bear. Future Allstar I am blessed and I am loved. I see the moon, and the moon sees me, God bless the moon, and God bless me. Let the children come to me - for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ~ Matthew 19:14 My precious masterpiece from God. Once upon a time. One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Our little blessing. Some say my smile is like Daddy's, some say my eyes are like Mommy's. But most of all, I hope they say my heart is like Jesus'. Ten little tiny fingers that always want to play, that never stop exploring the wonder of today. Ten little fingers that from the very start will reach out for tomorrow yet always hold your heart. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; One is roots, the other, wings. To hug and to hold from this day forward. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ~ Proverbs 22:6 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky. Two little hands, two little feet... A brand new baby is oh so sweet When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of the fairies. Where ever you go, what ever you do, be happy and know that I love you. You are special, you are dear. How blessed we are to have you here. You look a little like your Mother, a little like your Father and a whole lot like a miracle to me. Your children are not your children they are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. ~ Kahlil Gibran You're the end of the rainbow, my pot of gold. You're daddy's little girl to have and hold. A precious gem is what you are. You're mommy's bright and shining star. You're the treasure I cherish, so sparkling and bright. You were touched by the holy and beautiful light. Like angels that sing a heavenly thing, and you're our little girl. Home and Family->Beautiful Thoughts A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~ John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. ~ John Keats As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ~ Emerson Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Beauty is in the eye of its beholder. Beauty is not caused... It is. ~ Emily Dickinson Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~ Edgar Allen Poe Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ~ Emerson Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful. ~ Mme.de Pompadour Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? ~ Oscar Hammerstein Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. ~ Louisa May Alcott How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ~ Spanish Proverb I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. ~ Albert Einstein Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ~ Albert Einstein La vie est belle... profiter de chaque moment. (Life is beautiful... enjoy each moment) Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness. ~ Michelangelo No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears. People are like stained glass windows - the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows. Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt ~ Helen Keller The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. ~ Albert Einstein Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. ~ Emerson Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Emerson To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still. ~ Shakespeare What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis, order, and for its essence, unity. When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life. Home and Family->Family A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap. Always have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Be always thankful for FAMILY, and FRIENDS. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ, God forgave you. ~ Ephesians 4:32 Because I'm the MOM that's why. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them. Children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. Cooking and Cleaning can wait till tomorrow, For babies grow up we've learned to our sorrow, So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep. Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln Family is the most important thing in the world. ~ Princess Di Having someone to love is family... Having somewhere to go is home... Having both is a blessing. I am blessed and I am loved. It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~ Shakespeare Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. Mothers hold each moment in their hearts. Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts. The best thing to spend on children is time. Together we are strong. When our relationships are born in the heart of God, they bring out the best in us, for they are nurtured by love. Where there is love in the heart there is joy in the home. Home and Family->Friends A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure. A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. A friend in need is a friend indeed. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. ~ Emerson A friend is another I. ~ Aristotle A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. A friend is the first person to come in when the last person walks out. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. A friend loves at all times. ~ Proverbs 17:17 A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. A man who has friends must himself be a friend. ~ Proverbs 18:24 A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~ Emerson A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. Hold a true friend with both of your hands Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~ American Proverb Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there? Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. Friends are God's way of taking care of us. Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. Friends are lights in winters; the older the friend, the brighter the light. Friends are relatives you make for yourself. Friends are seldom found; They are made. Friends... They are kind to each other's hopes; They cherish each other's dreams. ~ Thoreau Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, By the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Friendship is a horizon - which expands whenever we approach it. Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies. ~ Aristotle Friendship is a special kind of love. Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together. Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue. ~ William Penn Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life. Good friends are good for your health. Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant that proves a lasting friendship. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~ Emerson I get by with a little help from my friends. ~ John Lennon I have been, and always shall be, your friend. I went outside to find a friend, but could not find one there. I went outside to BE a friend, and friends were everywhere. In prosperity our friends know us; In adversity we know our friends. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ~ Epicurus It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Emerson It takes a long time to grow an old friend. It's so much more friendly with two. ~ A.A. Milne Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. Love comes from blindness; Friendship from knowledge. Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice. Make new friends; cherish the old. Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job. The best mirror is an old friend. The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. The friendship which is to be practiced or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other. ~ Samuel Johnson The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. ~ Mark Twain The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~ Thoreau The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. The only true gift is a portion of thyself. ~ Emerson The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Emerson The road to a friend's house is never long. The secret to friendship is being a good listener. Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever. True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~ Aristotle When you're looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle Home and Family->Guest Room "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Friends are relatives you make for yourself. Friends... They are kind to each other's hopes; They cherish each other's dreams. ~ Thoreau Friendship is a special kind of love. Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue. ~ William Penn Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. ~ Emerson I am blessed and I am loved. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ~ Emerson Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. Oh bed! Oh bed! Oh delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head. One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Emerson The road to a friend's house is never long. We are glad you are here. We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. Welcome - we're glad to have you as our guest and hope you have a good night's rest. Tomorrow you again may roam, but while you're here just feel at home. Welcome lords and ladies from wherever you may roam, This house however humble, is the castle we call home. Welcome. Home and Family->Home A friend loves at all times. ~ Proverbs 17:17 A good laugh is sunshine in the house. A home is built of peace and love, And not of wood or stone. A place where understanding lives, And memories are sown. (Your family name) Sowing Memories Since XXXX. A well-spent day brings happy sleep. ~ Leonardo da Vinci As for Me and My House We will serve the Lord. ~ Joshua 24:15 Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. ~ Emerson Be still, and know that I am God. ~ Psalm 46:10 Céad Míle Fáilte Irish saying translated: "A hundred thousand welcomes" Crafts Are Cheaper Than Therapy. Dance like nobody's watching. Laugh like no one is listening. Love like you can't be hurt. Live life like it's heaven on Earth. Do Small things with Great Love. Don't count your years... make your years count. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Don't just live the length of your life, live the width of it as well. Gathering Room Give us this day our daily bread. ~ Matthew 6:11 God rest your love upon this door bless this home forever more. Happy Are Those Who Dwell In Thy House. Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. ~ Charles Dickens Having someone to love is family... Having somewhere to go is home... Having both is a blessing. He abidith in faith, hope, and love - the greatest of these being love. ~ 1 Cor 13:13 He who forgives first, wins. Home is where the heart is. Home is where there's one to love us. Home Sweet Home. Home Sweet Home... Where Ivy Grows, Roses Bloom, And Sunlight Fills My Favorite Room. I am blessed and I am loved. I have a dream today. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. If life gives you scraps... make quilts! If you can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it. If you pause to reflect, you will have time to count your blessings. In our home let love abide, and bless all those who step inside. It will all come out in the wash. It's a Wonderful Life. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa La vie est belle... profiter de chaque moment. (Life is beautiful... enjoy each moment) Leave room in your garden for the angels to dance. Let there be Peace and Let it begin with me. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Life is too short to drink bad wine. Live Life One Day At A Time And Make It A Masterpiece! Live well, laugh often, love much. Love is a fruit in season at all times. Love is the mother of everything. Love makes our house a home. L'amour est meilleur que le vin. (Love is better than wine) May all who enter as guests... leave as friends. May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door. May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven Accept you. Memories are precious when shared with those we love. My house is filled with the things that I love. Oh bed! Oh bed! Oh delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head. Peace to All Who Enter. Reach for the Stars, Dare to Dream, Believe in yourself. Sweet is the smile of home. The earth laughs in flowers. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Emerson The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere. There's No Place Like Home This above all; to thine own self be true. ~ William Shakespeare Vive Bene, Spesso L'amore,Di Risata Molto. (Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much) Vivre, aimer, rire... le boneheur quoi! (To live, love, laugh... is happiness!) We cannot change yesterday. We can only make the most of today, and look with hope toward tomorrow. We do not remember days, We remember moments. We shall drink no wine before its time... It's time! Welcome Friends. We're glad to have you as our guest. And hope you have a good night's rest. Tomorrow you again may roam. But while you're here just feel at home. Where there is love in the heart there is joy in the home. Home and Family->Kitchen and Dining Room A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent. A guardian angel in your kitchen, Watches over what you're fixin'! A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen, and this kitchen is delirious! All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you. ~ Deuteronomy 12:7 Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. Better a dry crust with peace and quiet, than a house full of feasting with strife! Bless us O Lord and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive from thy bounty through Christ our Lord. Amen Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich. Coffee and love taste best when hot. Coffee is best sweetened by good company. Coffee tastes better with a friend. Come gather at our table. Comfort's in my coffee cup. Cooking is like love, It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. Every cook makes his own sauce. Félicitez Dieu, dont toutes les bénédictions coulent (Thank God, from whom all blessings come) Food should be prepared with butter and love. For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient self-service. Give Us Lord, a bit o' sun, a bit o' work, and a bit o' fun; Give us all in the struggle and sputter, our daily bread and a bit o' butter. Give us this day our daily bread. ~ Matthew 6:11 God of goodness, bless our food, keep us in a pleasant mood. I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are ~ Michelangelo I live on good soup, not on fine words. ~ Moliere I love cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food. Kiss the cook!!! Kissing doesn't last, good cookin' does. Lord bless this kitchen and those who labor in it. Mom's Cafe Open 24 hours! Mom's Kitchen: Love served here. Never eat more than you can lift. No matter where I serve my guests, they seem to like my kitchen the best! Sage advice improves with thyme. Thank you Lord, for this our food and that we are together. Amen The kitchen is the heart of the home. The Queen doesn't cook! There are four basic food groups, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles. Too many cooks spoil the food. Two choices for Dinner Tonight: take it OR leave it! Warm kitchen, warm friends. Home and Family->Pets A Dog looks up to a man, A cat looks down on a man, but a patient horse looks a man in the eye and sees him as an equal. A horse carries a certain goodness, an inner light from which beauty flows. A horse in the wind - a perfect symphony. A horse is an angel without wings. A house is not a home without a dog. A kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom. A little horseplay... the way best to enjoy a summer day! A spoiled rotten cat lives here. A spoiled rotten dog lives here. All animals are equal, though some animals are more equal than others. ~ George Orwell And on the seventh day ... God went riding! Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, Predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~ George Eliot Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul. Cats know not how to pardon. Dogs are people too. Dogs have owners, Cats have staff. Drumming hooves, quiet ground... nature's song of joy. Even a cat is a lion in her own lair. Give a horse what he needs and he will give you his heart in return. Horse... If God made anything more beautiful he kept it for himself! Horses give us the wings we lack. How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven. I live in a house but my home is in the stable. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. ~ Mark Twain If you want the best seat in the house... move the cat. If you want the best seat in the house... move the dog. In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog. In dog years I'm dead. In training horses, one trains himself. Lord help me be the person my cat thinks I am! Lord help me be the person my dog thinks I am! Money might buy you a fine dog, but only love will make its tail wag. My cat's not spoiled... I'm just well trained! My dog's not spoiled... I'm just well trained! Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly! Never trust a dog to watch your food. No heaven can heaven be, if a horse isn't there to welcome me. O, for a morning in May... filled with the beauty of horses, soft with light of heaven. Of all creature God made at the Creation, there is none more excellent, or so much to be respected as a horse. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend; Inside of a dog its too dark to read. Poverty is another word for owning a horse. Riding is for those people who see not a horse but a spirit next to them. The affections of a good animal is the highest honor bestowed upon human kind. The delicate and exquisite horse is itself a work of art. The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. The more people I meet the more I like my dog. The smallest feline is a masterpiece. ~ Da Vinci The trouble with cats is that they have no tact. The Way to Heaven is on Horseback. There are no ordinary cats. There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. ~ Sir Winston Churchill Time spent with cats is never wasted. To err is human, to forgive, canine. When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. Wipe your paws. Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. International Proverbs A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~ Chinese Proverb A journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire. ~ American Proverb A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. ~ American Proverb A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Chinese Proverb A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~ Spanish proverb Away is good, but home is best. ~ Swedish proverb Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment chop wood and carry water. ~ Ancient Chinese Proverb Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~ German Proverb By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible. ~ Italian Proverb Cut your losses and let your profits run. ~ Proverb Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from a friend's forehead. ~ Chinese Proverb First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. ~ Greek Proverb Have a vision not clouded by fear. ~ Cherokee Proverb He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. ~ English Proverb He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. ~ Chinese proverb He who begins many things finishes but a few. ~ Italian Proverb He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning. ~ Danish Proverb He who is outside the door already has a good part of his journey behind him. ~ Dutch proverb Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. ~ English Proverb How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ~ Spanish Proverb If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~ Chinese Proverb It is not enough to aim, you must hit. ~ Italian Proverb Like cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a distant land. ~ Jewish Proverb Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. ~ German Proverb Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. ~ Swedish Proverb Love teaches even asses to dance. ~ French Proverb Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. ~ Turkish proverb Never ask more or less of yourself than your best. ~ Proverb One should keep old roads and old friends. ~ Dutch saying Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~ Swedish Proverb Strong legs are needed to carry good days. ~ Icelandic saying Talk doesn't cook rice. ~ Chinese proverb The feet go to that place that the heart goes. ~ Afghan Proverb The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens. ~ Irish proverb The torch of love is lit in the kitchen. ~ French Proverb There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool. ~ Danish Proverb To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~ Chinese Proverb When I rest, I rust. ~ German Proverb When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. ~ Yiddish Proverb Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. ~ Sanskrit Proverb You must howl with the wolves you are with. ~ Old Danish saying You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~ Irish proverb Love and Marriage->Beautiful Thoughts A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~ John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. ~ John Keats As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ~ Emerson Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Beauty is in the eye of its beholder. Beauty is not caused... It is. ~ Emily Dickinson Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~ Edgar Allen Poe Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ~ Emerson Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful. ~ Mme.de Pompadour Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? ~ Oscar Hammerstein Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. ~ Louisa May Alcott How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ~ Spanish Proverb I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. ~ Albert Einstein Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ~ Albert Einstein La vie est belle... profiter de chaque moment. (Life is beautiful... enjoy each moment) Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness. ~ Michelangelo No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears. People are like stained glass windows - the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows. Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt ~ Helen Keller The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. ~ Albert Einstein Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. ~ Emerson Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Emerson To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still. ~ Shakespeare What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis, order, and for its essence, unity. When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life. Love and Marriage->Love A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway A good love is delicious you can't get enough too soon A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous A soft answer has often been the means of breaking a hard heart Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! All of us need more love than we deserve All you need is love ~ John Lennon And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love ~ 1 Corinthians 13 As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet ~ Plato Be humble and give more honor to others than to yourselves ~ Philippians 2:3 Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? ~ Oscar Hammerstein Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense Falling in love is like being struck by lightning. You can no more make it strike you than you can avoid it Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love ~ Albert Einstein Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves Harmony is as precious as fragrant anointing oil, as refreshing as dew ~ Psalm 133:1 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved I am jealous of the perfumed air of night that from this garden climbs to kiss thy lips ~ Longfellow I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~ Mother Teresa I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found ~ Thoreau I love you oot only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people ~ Vincent van Gogh I will love you my whole life, you and no other If I know what love is, it is because of you If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? ~ Lily Tomlin If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving If you have it - love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~ Mother Teresa If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was If you love the good that you see in another, you make it your own If you would be loved, love and be lovable In jealousy there is more of self-love than love In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done. It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. ~ Mother Teresa Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~ Mother Teresa Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Let the burden never be so heavy; love makes it light Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction Life in abundance comes only through great love Life is to be fortified by many friendships - to love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence Like a windstorm Punishing the oak trees, Love shakes my heart Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so Love and you shall be loved ~ Emerson Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies Love comes from blindness; Friendship from knowledge. Love conquers all Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache ~ Mae West Love conquers all, and let us yield to it Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it Love decreases when it ceases to increase Love demands all and has a right to it ~ Beethoven Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts what is above its strength Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything ~ Katherine Hepburn Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination ~ Voltaire Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ~ Mother Teresa Love is a little blind. When we love someone dearly, we unconsciously overlook many thoughts Love is a symbol of eternity; it wipes out all sense of time Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring Love is always bestowed as a gift freely, willingly, and without expectation Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired ~ Robert Frost Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses Love is being stupid together Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice. Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush, hold it too loose, it'll fly Love is like a mirror, when you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours and reflecting each other's love you see infinity Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts Love is love's reward Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see Love is not something you feel. It's something you do Love is space and time measured by the heart Love is the greatest refreshment in life ~ Pablo Picasso Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence Love is very patient and kind ~ 1Corinthians 13:4 Love is, above all, the gift of oneself Love like a lamp needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low Love makes all hard hearts gentle Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. ~ Swedish Proverb Love NEVER fails ~ I Corinthians 13:8 Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy Love rules without a sword Love binds without a cord Love sought is good, but given unsought is better ~ Shakespeare Love spends his all, and still hath store Love thrives in the face of all life's hazards, save one - neglect Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock Love without return is like a question without an answer Love your neighbor as yourself ~ Jesus Christ Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much Love: Two minds without a single thought Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away ~ Song of Solomon 8:7 May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine ~ Song of Solomon 1:2 May they who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength ~ Judges 5:31 May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite. ~ Shakespeare Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit Put love first Respect is what we owe; Love is what we give Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. And Summer's lease hath all too short a date ~ Shakespeare So long as we love we serve Speaking the truth in love ~ Ephesians 4:15 Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are That Love is all there is, is all we know of Love The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt The course of true love never did run smooth ~ Shakespeare The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love The greatest thing you ever learn is just to love and be loved in return ~ Nat King Cole The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of ~ Pascal The heart that loves is always young. The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still The Kiss - Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life The love we give away is the only love we keep The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed The only gift is a portion of thyself ~ Emerson The only love worthy of a name is unconditional The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being