Quotes I Love
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“The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.” Ananda Coomaraswamy
It has been said that “The greatest vision without action is simply hallucination.”
“To dream of a person you would like to be is to waste the person you are”
“In a time of change learners inherit the future, while the learned find themselves perfectly equipped to a world that no longer exist”
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” Margaret B. Runbeck
“Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers: they don’t want to mend their own ways, but each other’s.”
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” Havelock Ellis
“To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.” Tao Te Ching
“We work to become, not to acquire.” Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
“Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.” Maester Eckhart
“Value of persistence comes not from clinging to the past, but from vision of the future, so compelling you would do anything to make it real” Steve Pavlina
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” Alexander Smith
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi
“No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.” – Leon Wieseltier
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Carl Rogers
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” Rumi
“ Love wasn’t put in your heart to stay. Love isn’t love until you give it away.” ~ Michael W. Smith
“In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. “ Tom Brokaw
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” St. Augustine
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” Sam Keen
“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.” Pearl Bailey
“Love is not blind, it just only sees what matters.” William Curry
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” Barbara De Angelis
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” Helen Keller
“Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.” Barbara Johnson
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything.” Katharine Hepburn
“Love is not Love until Love is vulnerable” and “I came to love, I came into my own” Theodore Roethke
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Teresa
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.” Author Unknown
“Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” Ralph Blum
“Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” Brendan Francis
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” Seneca
“.. you may have a fresh start any moment you choose,for this thing we call “failure”is not the falling down,but the staying down.” M Pickford
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” Will Rogers
“When you get into a tight place & everything goes against you,never give up then,for that is just the time that the tide will turn.” H B Stowe
“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.” Faith Baldwin
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
“I trust the intelligence within me – whatever is happening out there is only a mirror of my own thinking.” Louise L.Hay
“Take the word victim off of your person, out of your vocabulary. It reeks with the old energy and does not suit your magnificence.” Kryon
“The first duty of love is to listen.” Paul Tillich
“Never Let the Fear of Striking Out, Keep You From Playing the Game.”
“Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.” Kurt Vonnegut
“Using passion as
your only fuel will no longer assure you of success than being in love
will ensure a successful relationship” Steve Pavlina
“Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.” Merry Browne
January 11th, 2010 at 2:53 am
Great to see a quote from Kurt Vonnegut here. He is sadly missed…