Quotes
A good quote can provide a passageway to insight when it comes to understanding
love, life and relationships. The following is a list of some of my
favorite quotes that I have collected from movies, books, TV shows and
fortune cookies.
Love is the scent of flowers in the spring. It is the silent choirs
of petals. Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.
Instrumental
Heaven Volume 7 by Mehdi
A 16th century Bishop said “marriage has less beauty but more
safety than a single life. It is full of sorrows and full of joys. It
lies under more burdens but it is supported by all the strengths of
love and those burdens are delightful.” In the end, all you can
do is commit to the people you love, hope for a little luck, and some
good weather.
Ben Afflack in Forces
of Nature
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget
what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The
Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those
that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and
familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you
somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started,
and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and
significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And
if you can find someone to love the you, you love, well, that's just
fabulous!
Carrie from Sex
in the City (episode American in Paris)
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can pretty much change your
life forever.
Felicity from Freshman
Year Collection (pilot episode Graduation)
Your relationship with yourself is the central template from which
all others are formed. Loving yourself is a prerequisite to creating
a successful and authentic union with another.
If
Love is a Game, These are the Rules
Am I destined to die alone and be found three weeks later half eaten
by Alsatians?
Bridget
Jones’ Diary
Think about it. If you are single, after graduation there isn't one
occasion where people celebrate you. Hallmark doesn't make a "congratulations,
you didn't marry the wrong guy" card. And where's the flatware
for going on vacation alone?
Carrie from Sex
in the City (episode A woman’s right to shoes)
Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.
Crystal Middlemas
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or
even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we
cannot live within.
James Arthur Baldwin
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take our breath away.
Anonymous
Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never
boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take
offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s
sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust,
to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.
Bible
John Laroche: Point is, what's so wonderful is that every one of these
flowers has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates
it. There's a certain orchid look exactly like a certain insect so the
insect is drawn to this flower, its double, its soul mate, and wants
nothing more than to make love to it. And after the insect flies off,
spots another soul-mate flower and makes love to it, thus pollinating
it. And neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance
of their lovemaking. I mean, how could they know that because of their
little dance the world lives? But it does. By simply doing what they're
designed to do, something large and magnificent happens. In this sense
they show us how to live -- how the only barometer you have is your
heart. How, when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in
your way.
Adaptation
You know how someone's appearance can change the moment you know them?
How a really attractive person, if you don't like them, can become more
and more ugly; whereas someone you might not have even have noticed...
that you wouldn't look at more than once, if you love them, can become
the most beautiful thing you've ever seen? All you want to do is be
near them.
Truth
about Cats & Dogs
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would
shape our lives? Perhaps if we never veered off course, we wouldn't
fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are. After all, seasons change.
So do cities. People come into your life and people go. But it's comforting
to know the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very
lucky, a plane ride away.
Carrie from Sex
in the City (episode I heart NY)
I'm a firm believer in the power of change. But there's one thing I've
learned. And that's that the hardest part of moving forward is not looking
back.
Sally Reardon from Felicity
Sophomore Year Collection (episode Ancient History)
I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of see the cracks in everything.
I’m convinced that tragedy wants to harden us, and that our mission
is never to let it.
Sally Reardon from Felicity
Freshman Year Collection (pilot episode Graduation)
Love is complicated -- full of sacrifice and compromise. But maybe
that’s the best part.
Sally Reardon from Felicity
Freshman Year Collection (episode Love and Marriage)
The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know what
you want and believe you can have it.
Positive
Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Positive
Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
Byrd Baggett
I no longer love her, that’s certain but maybe I love her. Love
is so short, forgetting is so long.
Twenty
Love Poems and Song of Despair by Plablo Neruda
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential
to your own.
Robert Heinlein
God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Fortune cookie
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When love feels like magic, it's called Destiny. When destiny has a
sense of humor, it's called Serendipity.
Scientists say we only use 10 percent of our brains but I think we
only use 10 percent of our hearts.
John (Owen Wilson) from Wedding
Crashers
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects
of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths
and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable
yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace
its power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves
up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be
willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer.
It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of
rejection that love can burn so brightly as to join to souls melding
the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this
bond that we draw strength eternal and power ever lasting. It is in
this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness,
both in ourselves and in our lives.
Anonymous
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight
the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts
Life is what happens while your busy making other plans.
John Lennon from his song Beautiful
Boy
Life is a joke that's just begun.
Three
Little Maids from School by W.S. Gilbert
Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never
been hurt before, sing as though no one can hear you, live as though
heaven is on earth.
Souza
The definition of happiness is the difference between expectations
and reality.
unknown
Remember life is not a rehearsal, you only get one chance. Love the
life you live and live the life you love.
unknown
I know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing because tomorrow
the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
Tom Hanks in Cast
Away
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