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Courage Quotes
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. - Anais Nin
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings. — Amelia Earhart
Courage - fear that has said its prayers. -Dorothy Bernard
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. - Katherine Anne Porter
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. - Kesgavan Nair
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. - Vittorio Alfieri
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. - Jean Anouilh
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. - G.K. Chesterton.
Cowards dies many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. -Shakespeare. (Julius Caesar, II, ii)
But screw your courage to the sticking place. And we’ll not fail. - Shakespeare (Macbeth, I, vii)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
Courageous risks are life giving, they help you grow, make you brave and better than you think you are. - Joan L. Curcio
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong.
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. - Alice Walker
Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded. - Anita Roddick
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. - Anna Freud
Perfect courage is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before all the world. -La Rochefoucauld
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Anonymous
Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway
All glory comes from daring to begin. — Eugene F. Ware
Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other. - Oliver J. Hart
Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. - Channing Pollock
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Green Ingersoll
It takes vision and courage to create-it takes faith and courage to prove. - Owen D. Young
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Leap, and the net will appear. - Julie Cameron, The Artist’s Way
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard
The definition of courage is grace under fire. -Ernest Hemingway
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. — Jerry Gillies
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. — Gertrude Stein
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared. —David Ben-Gurion
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. — Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. — Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. — Alice M. Swaim
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. —Aristotle
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. — Ruth Gordon
Do what you fear and fear disappears. — David Joseph Schwartz
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.—John Irving
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.—Andre Gide
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.—Anonymous
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. — Maxwell Malz
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. - Leo Rosten
Dreams/Follow Your Bliss Quotes
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world. - Heraclitus
Dreams are necessary to life. - Anais Nin
Follow your bliss. - Joseph Campbell
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to your courage. - Anais Nin
It's not only what we do but also what we do not do for which we are
accountable. - Moliere.
Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -
Epictetus
Dreams are necessary to life. - Anais Nin
Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les
Brown
Imagine. - John Lennon
Careful what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -William Blake
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in
them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.- Louise
Driscoll
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.-Paul Valery
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can
dream it, you can make it so.-Belva Davis
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. -James Allen
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream
of things that never were, and ask why not?--Robert F. Kennedy
When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go. - Carol
Burnett
Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. - Gladys Taber
Dreams are what get you started. Discipline is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryan
When your heart is in your dream,
no request is too extreme. - Jiminy Cricket
What do you pack to pursue a dream? And what do you leave behind? - Sandra Sharp
If somebody believes in you, and you believe in your dreams, it can happen. - Tiffany Bangs
We must teach our children to dream with open eyes. - Harry Edwards
Longing performs all things. - Mary Renault
We know not where our dreams will take us, but we can probably see quite clearly where we’ll go without them. - Marilyn Grey
Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them. - Josie Bisset
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt
If you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true? – Faye LaPointe
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -John Updike
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot
We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams. - Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allen Poe
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde
Between our dreams and our actions, there’s this world. - Bruce Springsteen
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.—Brian Tracy
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.—William Faulkner
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.—Anais Nin
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.—Dale E. Turner
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.—Henry David Thoreau
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, Sir James M. Barrie
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.—Henry David Thoreau
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.—William Arthur Ward
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.—Henry David Thoreau
It may be those who do most, dream most.—Stephen Leacock
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.—Charles Lindbergh
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood ... Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. - Daniel Hudson Burnham
The more you can dream, the more you can do.—Michael Korda
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, “Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams.” Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, “How good or how bad am I?” That’s where courage comes in.—Erma Bombeck
You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?--Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific)
I’ll toss my coins in the fountain
Look for clovers in grassy lawns
Search for shooting stars in the night
Cross my fingers and dream on. -Tracy Chapman
Dare to be wrong and to dream. - Frederick von Schiller
Family Quotes
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. - Anthony Brandt
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. - Gail Lumet Buckley
One’s family is the most important thing in life. - Robert C. Byrd
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. - Chinese proverb
The family is the nucleus of civilization. - Will and Ariel Durant
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
The family (is) is the first essential cell of human society. - Pope John XXIII
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whomever you are, you need one. - Jane Howard
What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way. - Jean Illsley Clarke
Heirlooms we don’t have in our family. But stories we’ve got. - Rose Chernin
Let us make one point…that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile…Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. - Mother Teresa
To the family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. - Dodie Smith
I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie. - Zona Gale
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.- Desmond Tutu
Family is just accident…They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are. - Marsha Norman
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
My family didn’t have much, but we sure had plenty. - Sherry Thomas
To understand a parent’s love - have a child. - Chinese proverb
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. -George Santayana
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S. Truman
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson
A brother is a friend provided by nature. - Legouve Pere
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. – Anita Baker
Friendship Quotes
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. - La Rochefoucauld
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. - Shakespeare.
One friend in a life is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. - Henry Brooks Adams.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
And we find at the end of a perfect day, the soul of a friend we’ve made. - Carrie Jacobs Bond
The truth is, friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. - Katherine Mansfield
You meet your friend, your face brightens - you have struck gold. - Kassia (c. 840)
The depth of friendship - how much it means to us…depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates. -Lillian Rubin
But every road is tough to me, That has no friend to cheer it. - Elizabeth Stone
Friendship is essentially a partnership… a friend is a second self. - Aristotle
It’s friendship, friendship. Just a perfect blendship. - Cole Porter
Life is a chronicle of friendship. Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep hearts strong for life. - Helen Keller
The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a thing friendship is - World without end! -Robert Browning
Friendship is the shadow of the evening which strengthens with the setting sun of life. - La Fontaine
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. -Joseph Addison
What is friendship? One soul in two bodies. - Aristotle
A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson
My friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thoughts. - Henry David Thoreau
What wealth it is to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation. -
Henry David Thoreau
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
There’s nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends. - Hilaire Belloc
It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. - Euripides
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - John Churton Collins
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau
Friends are the end and the reward of life. They keep us worthy of ourselves. - Robert Louis Stevenson
All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad. - Thomas Jefferson
A friend is a present you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship is better than wealth, to possess the love of a true heart, the sympathy of a noble soul, is better than to be a desolate millionaire. - George MacDonald
The things which our friends do with and for us, form a portion of our lives, for they strengthen and advance our personality. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels in an honest friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson
When I count my blessings, I count you twice. -Martin Chiles
I think we’re here for each other. - Carol Burnett
One does not make friends. One recognizes them. -Irene Dunn
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do. - Michelle Ventor
Some friendships are created by nature, some by interest, and some by souls. - Jeremy Taylor
Who shall explain the extraordinary instinct that tells us, perhaps after a single meeting, that this or that particular person in some mysterious way matters to us? - A.C. Benson
Love is blind. Friendship is clairvoyant. -Philippe Sonpault
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand…and touches your heart. - Kathleen Grove
Friendship blossoms when two people say to each other, in effect: “What? You too? I thought I was the only one!” - C.S. Lewis
When you’re with a friend, your heart has come home. - Emily Farrar
A friend is what your heart needs all the time. -Henry Van Dyke
One good heart attracts another. Each true friend deserves the other. - Shaker saying
It is the friendship of good people that is friendship most of all. - Aristotle
Each person represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -Anais Nin
Whatever our souls are made of - yours and mine are the same. - Emily Bronte
In my heart are all the treasures that I shall ever own: they are the memories of all the old friends I have known. - Kimberly Knutsen
We set off for school side by side, our feet in step, not touching but feeling as if we were joined at the should, hip, ankle, not to mention heart. - Jamaica Kincaid
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. - Ed Cunningham
There is a definite process by which one makes people into friends, and it involves talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. -Rebecca West
A soul friend is someone with whom we can share our greatest joys and deepest fears, confess our worst sins and most persistent faults, clarify our highest hopes and perhaps most unarticulated dreams. - Edward C. Sellner
The silver friend knows your present, and the gold friend knows all your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there’s someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who’s there for life. -Jill McCorkle
Eventually, it’s the silences which make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say. - Margaret Lee Runbeck
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. - Rusty Berkus
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford
Anything, everything, little or big becomes an adventure when the right person shares it. -Kathleen Norris
While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities. - Helen Keller
Perhaps friendship is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. - Antoine Saint- Exupery
“Pooh, promise you won’t forget about me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.” Pooh thought for a little. “How old shall I be then?” “Ninety-nine.” Pooh nodded. “I promise,” he said. (A.A. Milne)
Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Hold a true friend in both your hands. – Nigerian proverb
Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other! - Alex Noble
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same. -Unknown
My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, you’ve had a great life. - Lee Iacocca
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. - Virginia Woolf
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend or a meaningful day. - The Dalai Lama
Friendship’s the wine of life. - Young
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. -La Fontaine
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. - (Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca)
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. -Henry David Thoreau
A friend is, as it were, a second self. - Cicero
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf
Friends are treasures. - Horace Bruns
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
- Anon.
Friends are born, not made. - Henry Adams
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. - Octavia Butler
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. - James Byrnes
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend. -Albert Camus.
You can make more friends in two weeks by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood
A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages - first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend. - Anton Chekhov
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. - Jennie Jerome Churchill
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Colton
If you have one true friend you have more than your share. - Thomas Fuller
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. - Elbert Hubard
My father used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life. - Lee Iacocca
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. -Thomas Jefferson
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. - Sarah Orne Jewett
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I get by with a little help from my friends. - John Lennon
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. - John Leonard
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. - Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S. Lewis
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George Macdonald
Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its binding love. We stand close to each other, hand in hand, showing each other we understand. Some friends may come and go, but you are the truest friend I know. -Elsa Maxwell
Sooner or later you’ve heard about all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. -Ned Rorem
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children. - J.D. Salinger
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana
When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces, or to intrude into each other’s hearts. - Albert Schweitzer
After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend. - Page Smith
Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. - Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. – Elisabeth Foley
It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. - Marlene Dietrich
The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert
I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends. - William Shakespeare
Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak. - John Donne
Friends have all things in common. - Plato
There is no hope of joy except in human relations. - Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden. - Goethe
Home Quotes
Home is where one starts from. - T. S. Eliot
Home is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in. - Robert Frost
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - George Moore
Home is where the heart is.
Home is where the art is.
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. - J.H. Payne
There’s no place like home.
Home is not where you live but where they understand you. - Christian Morgenstern
There is still a little world of love at home. - Washington Irving
He has taken a very good road to bring himself home again. - A. Burney
I remember, I remember, the house where I was born. The little window where the sun Came creeping in at morn. - Thomas Hood
I must call you home by and by. - W. Clarke
There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. - James Montgomery
Every bird thinks its own nest charming. - French proverb
Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look when hearts are of each other sure. - John Keble (Rev. 1792-1866
Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o’er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o’er sea or land we roam? - Thomas Moore
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humber, there’s no place like home. - John Howard Payne , ( Song, Home Sweet Home)
Propria domus omnium optima.
Your own house is the best of all houses. - Latin Proverb
Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home-sweet-home: For there the heart can rest. - Henry van Dyke
Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look, Where hearts are of each other sure. - John Keble
Home is where there’s one to love! Home is where there’s one to love us! - Charles Swain
Home is where I want to be but I guess I’m already there. - David Byrne
A house is made to be lived in not to be lived for. - Ralph W. Sockman
Where thou art, that is home. - Emily Dickinson
No matter what, no matter where, it’s always home, if love is there.
Love Quotes
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. - Maria Lovell
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods. - Plato
All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love And its familiar voice wearies not ever. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The best thing to hold on to in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn
We are so much less without each other. - Leo Buscaglia
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. - Shakespeare
The best is yet to be. - Robert Browning
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. - Euripides
It’s love that makes the world go ‘round! - W. S. Gilbert
Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones
The heart that loves is always young.
All, everything I understand, I understand only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life As love’s young dream. - Thomas Moore
We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other. - Luciano de Creschenzo
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side and marveled that we had found each other. - Erik Dillard
And in the end, the love we take will be equal to the love we make. - The Beatles
Love is the only passion that cares not about the past or the future. - Balzac
To love and be loved will be the greatest event in our lives. - Rosseau
True love is like a sigh from the heart; it teaches in a moment everything one ought to say. -Corneille.
There are never enough “I love you”s. - Lenny Bruce
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. - Marge Piercy
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be. - Robert Browning
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott, M.D.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We remember love in our hearts, as the thing which in life, made our hearts glad; we long for love in our souls, as the things that will carry us home. - Daphne Rose Kingma
The most precious people in our lives are those we have shared love with. - Kobi Yamada
When I count my blessings, I count you twice. - Martin Chiles
I think we’re here for each other. - Carol Burnett
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. - James Thurber
Be glad of life because it give us the chance to love and to work and to look up at the stars. -Henry Van Dyke.
Love has a way of making places sacred and moments meaningful. - Janet Hobson
Being deeply loved by someone give you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
In your presence, I fell more in love with the best of myself. That was your gift. - William Cummings
Where love is, you are given a glimpse of the sacred. - Barbara De Angelis
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you will know exactly what to do. - Michelle Ventor
Anything, everything, little or big becomes an adventure when the right person shares it. - Kathleen Norris
Everywhere, we learn from those whom we love. - Goethe
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. - Thomas Chandler
Love keeps a child dancing. - Carol Lee Rainey
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. - Nadia Boulanger
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. — Rumi
The miracle of love is that love is given to us to give to one another.
Our spirits, too, are merged by love. When we are separated physically by time and distance, they remain entwined, joining the past we have shared with the hope and promise of all that is yet to be. — Robert Sexton
When our lives have truly been graced by the presence of another, we know how necessary they are to our happiness. — Robert Sexton
There is a special quality to the hours we pass with those we care for. Like the light of dusk, it lingers long after the moment itself is gone. Those who have become dear to us should never be denied the knowledge of how deeply they have touched our lives. — Robert Sexton
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. – Michael Leunig
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way. – Marlin Finch Lupus
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. – Agnes Repplier
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation. – Rainer Maria Rilke
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love, the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. – Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts. -Shakespeare, Henry VI
Honor the ocean of love. – George de Benneville
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint Exupery
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. – John Donne
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. – Rose Franken
The love we give away is the only love we keep. – Elbert Hubbard
What the world needs now is love, sweet love;
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. - Bacharach/David
Love is everything. - Jane Siberry
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. - William Shakespeare
I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.
I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.
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I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can’t help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.
I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song. . . - Author unknown
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. - Barbara De Angelis
Love is the only gold. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world. - Ralph Waldo Trine
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. — Ivan Panin
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost
The eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love! - Margaret Atwood
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. – Unknown
Love’s a thing that’s never out of season. - Barry Cornwall
Will you still love me when I’m sixty-four? - Paul McCartney
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. - Janos Arany
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. - Benjamin Disraeli
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand
Love is not finding someone to live with, It's finding someone you can't live without. - Rafael Ortiz
Where there is great love , there are always miracles - Willa Cather
Where there is love, there is life - Mahatma Gandhi
The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you,
not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
- Jeraluddin Rumi
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon. - Edward Lear
Mother Quotes
All mothers are quintessential: In pain and joy they are always with us, encouraging, instructing, loving. - Peter Megargee Brown
For the mother is and must be whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have. - Hannah Whitall Smith
Mother’s love grows by giving. - Charles Lamb
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who ran to help me when I fell and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place and make it well? My mother. - Jane Taylor
I feel that in the Heavens above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of “Mother” - Edgar Allan Poe
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo
Being a mother, as far as I can tell, is a constantly evolving process of adapting to the needs to your child while also changing and growing as a person in your own right. - Deborah Israel
When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level. - Jane Fonda
In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle. The miraculous sense of two people existing for each other. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. - William Makepeace Thackeray
Happy He with such a mother, faith in womankind Beats in his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In virtue alone is happiness…never was an existence upon earth more blessed than my mother’s. - John Quincy Adams
All-gracious! Grant to those who bear A mother’s charge, the strength and light To guide the feet that own their care In ways of Love and Truth and Right. - William Cullen Bryant
The word “ Mother” conjures up cozy vision of homespun life; mother baking cookies, mother sympathetically listening to your tragedies, mother as your champion. - Victoria Secunda
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw…All I owe to my mother…I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. - George Washington
No commitment in this whole world demands quite as much as bringing up children. - Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard
All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful joys. - Maurice Meterlinck
Mothers always know. - Oprah Winfrey
Grace was all in her steps,
Heaven in her eye,
In every gesture
dignity and love. - John Milton
A mother is an epiphany. - Peter Megargee Brown
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. - Mark Twain
Father Quotes
You remain my father, philosopher, counselor and friend. – A Son’s Prayer
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished how much he had learned in seven years.” Mark Twain
It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare
It is a wise child that knows his own father. - Homer
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. – James Baldwin
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. -Henry Ward Beecher
I just owe almost everything to my father. – Margaret Thatcher
I only realized it much later, but my father gave me a wonderful gift: a love of and joy in learning. – Dr. Ruth Westheimer
My best training came from my father. – Woodrow Wilson
My father always told me: You have the rest of your life to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life. – John Beilenson
My prescription for success is based on something my father always used to tell me: you should never try to be better than someone else, but you should never cease trying to be the best that you can be. – John Wooden
Life father, like son. Qualis pater talis filius. – Latin proverb
He is his father’s son. – Anonymous
He’s given me the greatest treasure a father can give – a piece of himself. – Suzanne Chazin
Directly after God in heaven comes Papa. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word – father. – Lydia M. Child
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. – Gloria Naylor
It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home – it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. – Margaret Truman, on her father, Harry S. Truman
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life. – Euripides
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. – Jean Paul Richter
One father is more than a hundred teachers. – English proverb
To become a father is not hard, to be a father is, however. – Wilhelm Busch
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week. – Mario Cuomo
I learned from my father how to work. I learned from him that work is life and life is work... – Philip Roth
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth. – Theodor Reik
To nourish children and to raise them against odds is in any time any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. – Marilyn French
Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back. – John Ruskin
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. – Margaret Courtney
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. – Sigmund Freud
It is much easier to become a father than to be one. – Kent Nerburn
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. -Mencius
A father's goodness is higher than the mountain, A mother's goodness, deeper than the sea. -Japanese Proverb
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. -Muriel Spark
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. - Clarence B. Kelland
Sisters Quotes
For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.
- Christina Rossetti
To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or confidante - it is to have a soul mate for life. - Victoria Secunda
…One’s sister is a part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of one’s heart and soul and memory. - Susan Cahill
…our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become. -Elizabeth Fishel
Sisters examine each other so they can have a map for how they should behave. - Michael D. Kahn
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. - Elizabeth Fishel
We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song. - Nancy Kelton
Your sister is your other self. She is you alter ego, your reflection, your foil, your shadow. -Barbara Mathias
Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. - Susan Scarf Merrell
In thee my soul shall own combined
The sister and the friend. - Catherine Kelligrew
I am not afraid to trust my sisters - not I. -Angelina Grimke
Sisters stand between one and life’s cruel circumstances. - Nancy Mitford
All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous. (inscription on tomb of Duchess of Newcastle in Westminister Abbey)
Sisters, whatever their stories, instinctively know how fortunate they are. - Susan Ripps
I recognize how crucial my relationship with my sisters is in the definition of myself. - Barbara Mathias
I sought my soul
But my soul I could not see.
I sought my God,
But my God eluded me.
I sought my sisters,
And I found all three. -(anonymous)
My sister! With that thrilling word
Let thoughts unnumbered wildly spring!
What echoes in my heart are stirred,
While thus I touch the trembling string. -Margaret Davidson
We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air. - Charlotte Bronte
A ministering angel shall my sister be. - William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
I never tempted her with word too large: But, as a brother to his sister, show’d Bashful sincerity and comely love. - William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)
Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will. - Olga Bronmas
Sometimes, sisters have the same journey in their hearts. - Louise Bernikow
The pull between sisters is the realization of similarity versus the need for difference. -Elizabeth Fishel
There is a space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment - and surprise. - Christine Downing
You can’t give up a sister. You were born with them and you die with them. - Elizabeth Mead Steig
All living things evolve and are involved in a pattern of struggle and release. This includes sisterhood. - Joy Harjo
If you tell you sister to go to hell in twelve different languages and you need a quarter, you can say “I need a quarter” and she’ll give it go you. - Elizabeth Mead Steig
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. - Charles Schulz
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. - Toni Morrison
(My sister is) a bowl of golden water which brims but never over flows. - Virginia Woolf
One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. - Betsy Cohen
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater. - Pam Brown
My sister! My sweet sister! If a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine. - Byron
There is something so physical about sisterhood; some body-memory, too deep for words. - Kennedy Fraser
The sister bond is often greater that that with a friend or a brother… - Dr. Harriette McAdoo
Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were. - Betsy Cohen
We set off for school side by side, our feet in step, not touching but feeling as if we were joined at the should, hip, ankle, not to mention heart. - Jamaica Kincaid
Our pattern of sisterhood makes an ongoing spiral, and within that spiral are our families, our communities, the earth, stars, all time. The spiral resembles two women carrying water through a battlefield in a rain of arrows. It resembles a long snake of relatives who walk through history from the eastern hills of time immemorial. The light balances the dark. Wildness walks next to her steady sister. They make it to the other side together. – Joy Harjo
Daughter Quotes
We are together, my child and I. Mother and child, yes, but sisters really, against whatever denies us all that we are. – Alice Walker
I find you a fascinating person. So there is much more than mother-daughter love. You really do enrich my life and teach me. – Nan Hunt
When I held you – my first baby – in my arms, I had the greatest thrill I have ever experienced. – Mrs. Colbert
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton
…You and I, Child of my body, bone of my bone, Apple of my eye. – Rosalie Sorrels
There be none of beauty’s daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to be. – Lord Byron
Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I love you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.
- Maureen Hawkins
When she comes and looks in my face and calls me “mother,” indeed I then truly am a mother… - Emma Hamilton
A daughter is a companion, the friend, and confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like love between the angels to her father. – Richard Steele
Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other. – Erica Jong
She discovered with great delight that one does not love on’es children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. – Gabriel Barcia Marquez
A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. – Victoria Secunda
Oh my son’s my son till he gets him a wife, But my daughter’s my daughter all her life. – Dinah Mulock Craik
The thoughts of a daughter are a kind of memorial. – Enid Bagnold
Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. – William Shakespeare.
A daughter is to her father a treasure of sleeplessness. – Ben Siva
I looked at my daughters…and appreciated the gift of parenthood, at that moment, more than any other gift I have ever been given… - Gerald Early
What I would like to give to my daughter is freedom. And this is given by example, not by exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, a license to be different from your mother and still be love…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love. – Erica Jong.
So I want to tell you now, for you to remember then ( in case I don’t get another moment like this in the next twenty years) that I love you devotedly…that I admire you for your struggles to mature and liberate yourself; that I respect your intellect; that I am proud to have had a hand in your upbringing; that I hope we shall be friends as long as I live. – Joan Scott, to her daughter Ann.
“Flowers o’ the home, “ says he, “ Are daughters.” – Marceline Desbordes- Valmore
Families are the most beautiful things in all the world. – Louisa May Alcott
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger
My daughter, as we walk together now.
All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly
Circle this bone with shining: when she is grown
Far from today as her eyes are far already. - Stephen Spender "To My Daughter".
A daughter is that bundle of joy
you stare at when God gives her to you
A daughter is that tiny person
you promise your life to
A daughter is that child
you help with her first walk
The one you couch
When she starts to talk
A daughter is the one you stay up to
when she feels really dad
The child you comfort when
when her heart is broken
and she is so sad.
A daughter is that special friend
Who'll argue and love you
until the very end - Josie Murphy
Wine
Friendship’s the wine of life. – Young
From wine what sudden friendship springs! – John Gay
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. – Horace
OR longer version:
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes. – Horace
‘Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, For tea and coffee leave us much more serious. – Lord Byron
Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. – Samuel Johnson
When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing. – Ovid
From Wine is the divine juice of September. – Francois Voltaire
What though youth gave love and roses, age still leaves us friends and wine. – Thomas Moore
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. – Ernest Hemingway
The only good wine is the one you like. – Lois Stansberry, St. Supery Vineyards
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, set him dancing. – Homer
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it. – Shakespeare
Wine is bottled poetry. - Robert Louis Stevenson
In vino veritas. In wine there’s truth. – Pliny the Elder
God made only water, but man made wine. – Victor Hugo
Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. – Charles Beaudelaire
Wine gives strength to weary men. – Homer
Wine drunken with moderation is the joy of the soul and the heart. -
Who loves not wine, women and song, remains a fool his whole life long. – Martin Luther
Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather – stains of care. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
One barrel of wine can work more miracles than a church full of saints. – Italian proverb
Sunbeams condensed from Nature’s Holy Shrine are gently houses in every drop of wine. – Anonymous
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. –Benjamin Franklin
Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.
Medieval German saying
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson (1573–1637)
To Celia
For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
Thomas Becon (1512–1567)
Catechism, 375
This bread I break was once the oat,
This wine upon a foreign tree
Plunged in its fruit;
Man in the day or wind at night
Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
This bread I break
Days of wine and roses laugh and run away,
Like a child at play.
Johnny Mercer (1909-1976)
Days of Wine and Roses
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
Ernest Hemingway
Death in the Afternoon
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Lord Byron
Don Juan
It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend; one's present or future thirst; the excellence of the wine; or any other reason.
Latin saying
Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.
Anon French Proverb
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900)
Vita Summa Brevi
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