Quotes/sayings?

Question

anyone know any intelligent sayings...not cheesy ones.

to do with love, time, wisdom etc

eg. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

eg. Life is made up of hope and memories and silent wishes only the heart can hear.

any others? what are your favourite quotes?

thanks

Answer 1

(my favorite) Alfred Tennyson:

I hold it true, whate'er befall;

I feel it, when I sorrow most;

'Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.

Albert Einstein:

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein:

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Albert Schweitzer:

Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from [humankind] the conflicts which this ethic will involve [us], but allow [us] really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation -- this is the difficult task which confronts our age

Amy Bloom:

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

on wisdom:

Adlai Stevenson:

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

Agatha Christie:

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Albert Camus:

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

Bessie Stanley (adapted; erroneously attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson):

Success

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded.

source and many more here:

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_advice.h...

Answer 2

My favorite quote of all time because I believe that, in its three words, it sums up all the intelligence we have about life, the universe, and everything, comes from Charles Eames, famous designer and architect:

"Eventually, everything connects."

                             —Charles Eames

Feel free to use my collection of quotes if you like. Just create a script tag from the info below and pop the code into your webpage where you want it to appear. (There are about 100 good ones there - this code will grab them randomly upon page refresh.)

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Hope that helps.

Mitch

Answer 3

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

- Winston Churchil

'The riskier the road, the greater the profit.'

- "Rules Of Acquisition"

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,

give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."

- Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations"

Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse.

- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly

"Avoid direct contact with the enemy until the time and place are just right. Stealth, speed, mobility, force composition, and operational flexibility are the key to success."

- "Brotherhood Combat Operations Manual"

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

- Aristophanes

Answer 4

"Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you cannot erase it." - Anonymous

Answer 5

Not sure who said this, but my favorite is....

"While everyone is busy stopping to smell the flowers, I hope someone is taking the time to plant some."

And a quote by John Milton:

"The mind itself can make a Heaven of h**l and a h**l of Heaven."

Answer 6

Where there is love there is life.

Gandhi

~

"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains,

at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers,

at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars,

and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."

St. Augustine,

The aim of life is to live a divine life. We are living in this world. We know that man does not live by bread alone. He needs the soul in order to live in the world of God's Reality. The soul alone has the capacity to see and feel the known and the Unknown, the existent and the non-existent, the dream of the past, the achievement of the present and the hope of the future.

~

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is bliss, taste it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.

Mother Teresa

~

If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain.

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

~

Life can be found only in the present moment.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here,

and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment,

we cannot be in touch with life.

Thich Nhat Hanh



Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

- Kahlil Gibran

He who does not love life,  

To him life is a taut  

And rigid grasp.  

He who loves life,

To him life is a beautiful

And powerful clasp.

- Sri Chinmoy



Love the battlefield of life,  

For joy is always breathing  

Secretly and openly  

In both your victory and your defeat.

- Sri Chinmoy

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover.

The way of our prophets is the way of Truth.

If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive.

- Rumi

“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

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

- Elbert Hubbard



Love is not a thing to feel.

Love is not a thing to give and receive.

Love is a thing only to become

And eternally be. "

- Sri Chinmoy (1)



~

Love is an endless mystery,

for it has nothing else to explain it.



Love's gift cannot be given,

it waits to be accepted.

Rabindranath Tagore (2)

~

Love is the scent with the lotus born.

It is the silent choirs of petals

Singing the winter’s harmony of uniform beauty.

Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.

It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets -    sun and moon lit



- Paramahansa Yoganada (3)





~

" Love knows no answer for it does not question."

-silent lotus

~

" Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love."  

- silent lotus

~

The madness of love

Is a rich fief;

Anyone who recognized this

Would not ask Love for anything else:

It can unite Opposites

And reverse the paradox.

I am declaring the truth about this:

The madness of love makes bitter what was sweet,

It makes the stranger a kinsman,

And it makes the smallest the most proud.

- Hadewijch of Antwerp



~

Though I am never loath to grant salvation,

I hesitate indeed to grant pure love.

Whoever wins pure love surpasses all;

He is adored by men;

He triumphs over the three worlds..

- Sri Ramakrisna (4)

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Albert Camus

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

Alexander Pope

Answer 7

the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it becomes

the bible's brilliant for love quotes

hold on. hold on even when all taht's left is the will that says 'hold on'