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Love
- The love of beauty may express itself in a song, in a smile, or
in silence.
- from Education and
the Significance of Life by Krishnamurti
- The most important thing in life is to learn to give out love,
and to let it come in.
- from Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch Albom; p. 52
- Without love, we are birds with broken wings.
- from Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch Albom; p. 92
- Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a
soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on
the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping
itself alive.
- from The Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks
Life
- Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish,
but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your
life will be serene.
- from The Encheiridion by Epictetus
- Life is pain, joy, beauty, ugliness, and love.
- from Education and
the Significance of Life by Krishnamurti
- Life is a tension of opposites. Life is a series of pulls back
and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something
else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain
things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything
for granted.
- from Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch Albom; p. 40
- So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem
half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are
important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way
you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to
creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
- from Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch Albom; p. 43
- Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really
don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing
things we automatically think we have to do.
- from Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch Albom; p. 83
Sorrow
- The bridge between laughing and crying is not long.
- At the fence of many sorrows, there is no gate, no words for what
will take us over, or through.
- from Elegy by Patricia Clark
- It's only horrible if you see it that way.
- from Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch Albom; p. 57
Miscellaneous
- The sacrifice of the present to an unknown future will certainly
never solve any of our problems.
- from Education and
the Significance of Life by Krishnamurti
- The truth is permanent, and everything else will fall by the
waste side.
- Always be joyful. Keep on praying. No matter what happens, always
be thankful, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
- Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.
- from Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch Albom; p. 18
- Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people
feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you
have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy
it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than
me-even in my current condition.
- from Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch Albom; p. 35
- You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you
cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if
you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that
you can trust them, too-even when you're in the dark. Even when you're
falling.
- from Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch Albom; p. 61
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops.
- Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.
- from Tuesdays with
Morrie by Mitch Albom; p. 103
- All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the
time.
- from The Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks
- Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think
that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But
hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
- from The Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks