Quotes
[Inspire . the . heart]


These are just a few of my favorite quotes; about life, love, friendship, and kindness. Hope they touch you as much as they did me.

"Whenever you are blue, just think of me. You share all my joy and sorrow...my other half."
-Shiro Petto

"Our faults not lie in the stars, but in ourselves."
-King Lear

"All sorrows can be borne if you tell a story about them."
-Karen Blixen

"True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist; nor can it be hidden where it truly does."
-Anonymous

"Everything will be okay in the end; if it's not, then it's not the end."
-Anonymous

"First love is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find but impossible to forget."
-Anonymous

"Love is like quicksand; once you fall in it, it's really hard to get out."
-Anonymous

"Funny how all dreams come true..."
-S.E.S

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
-David Grayson

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
-Frank Crane

"It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all."
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
-Winnie the Pooh

"Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile."
-Justine Milton

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
-William Shakespeare

"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely."
-The Land before Time

"Life has taught us that love does not consist gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It hurts to breathe because I know every breath I take proves I can live without you."
-Anonymous

"We must hold the ones we love with open arms and give the wings to fly."
-Anonymous

""Don't marry someone you can live with. Marry someone you can't live without."
-Josh McDowell

"If you don't dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?"
-Oscar Hammerstein

"The course of true love never did run smooth."
-A Midsummer's Night Dream

"Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love."
William Shakespeare

"Of the millions of twinkling stars to wish upon, only one can make your dreams come true."
-Me

"We are angels, but with one wing, and we fly by embracing each other."
-Vicki Bothwell

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched. They must be felt with the hear."
-Helen Keller

"The day that we first met, the angels whispered, 'Perfect.' "
-Anonymous

"Words can be short, but their echoes last forever."
-Mother Theresa

" Gravity cannot be responsible for people falling in love."
-Albert Einstein

"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart."
-Anne Frank

"It's like touching a star; you know you'll never reach it, but you just gotta keep on trying."
-Steve Erkel (Family Matters)

"Consider the past and you should know the future."
-Chinese Proverb

"The saddest thing in the world is loving someone who used to love you."
-Anonymous

"I love you, not because you are perfect, but perfect for me."
-Anonymous

"You never lose anything from loving, only from holding back."
-Anonymous

"The worst thing a guy can do is make a girl fall in love with him but not be there to catch her fall."
-Anonymous

"Life moves fast, but not so fast that you can't slow down to enjoy it."
-Anonymous

""Dreaming and doing go hand in hand."
-Anonymous

"You never know when you're making a memory."
-Anonymous

"Don't let your life wait for people."
-Anonymous

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
-Mother Teresa

"Love is not what we become, but what we already are."
-Stephen Levine

"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
-Iris Murdoch

"If our love is only a will to posses, it is not love."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world in born."
-Anais Nin

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have good friends, for life without friends is like on a desert island-to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
-Baltasar Gracian

"Hold a friend's hand through times of trial; let her find love through a hug and a smile; but also know when it is time to let go - for each and every one of us must learn to grow."
-Sharon A. Heilbrunn

"One kind word can warm three winter months."
-Japanese proverb

"Little deed of kindness, little words of love, help to make Earth happy."
-Julia Carney

"Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge."
-Carmelia Elliot

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
-Goethe

"If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink."
-Romans 12:20

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it."
C.C. Scott

"Wherever you go, there you are."
-Buckaroo Bonzai

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path. But the lesson to be learned is always ours."
-Melody Beattie

"When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim."
-Tom Cruise

"Family-a group experience of love and support."
-Marianne Williamson

"It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weakness. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead."
-Robin Williams

"Things do not change. We change."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I am always ready to learn; but I do not always like being taught."
-Winston Churchill

"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt."
-Max Lerner

"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
-Henry Winkler

"It's important to be involved and stand up for what you believe in."
-Ione Skye

"Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it."
-Hebrews 13:2

"There is so much in the world to care about."
-Laura Dern

"My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get...unless you're a banana.' "
-Rose Nylund

"Do the best you can while on earth to have an ideal family. To help you do that, ponder and apply the principles in the proclamation on the family."
-Richard G. Scott

"We have no way of knowing when our privilege to extend a helping hand will unfold before us.'
-Thomas S. Monson

"True humility will inevitably lead us to say to God, 'Thy will be done.' "
- Martin K. Jensen

"Prayer keeps a man from sin, and sin keeps a man from prayer."
-Brigham Young




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