“And strange it is / That nature must compel us to lament / Our most persisted deeds.”
by William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart, like
Why are we here? And where do we go?”
by Jack Johnson, Better Together

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
by Mozart

“We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love.”
by Sigmund Freud

“The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity”
by Helen Hayes

“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”
by Francois Mauriac

“All you need is love.”
by John Lennon

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”
by Romain Rolland

“We cannot tell the precise moment when love is formed. As in the filling of a vessel drop by drop, there is at last one which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
by Ray Bradbury

“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.”
by George Sand

“Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.”
by  Ralph Connor

“I have loved to the point of madness;
That which is called madness,
That which to me,
Is the only sensible way to love.”
by  F. Sagan

“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder'd at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr'd for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you.”
by John Keats

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”
by Pearl Bailey

“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.”
by Jacques Benigne Bossuel

“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
by Janos Arnay

“To see a world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.”
by  William Blake

“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
by John Milton

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.”
by  Samuel Johnson

“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
by  Dale Carnegie

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
by Aristotle

“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.”
by W. Beran Wolfe

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
by St Augustine

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
by Nikos Kazantzakis

“To fall in love is an easy thing, but to stay in love is the most difficult thing,
because love is not a play.”
by William Shakespeare

“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
by Arne Garborg

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
by Peter Ustinov

“Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; it is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.”
by Pierre Corneille

“Immature love says 'I love you because I need you'.
Mature love says 'I need you because I love you'.”
by Erich Fromm

“People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.”
by Louise Hay

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
by Victor Hugo

“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.”
by Ken Carey

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
by Stendhal

“In life we do things. Some of them we wish we had never done, others we wish we could replay in our heads a million times. But in the end, it’s those experiences which shape every detail about us; if we were to reverse any of them, we would not be at the exact place or the exact person we are today. So just LIVE. Make mistakes, but learn from them. Have wonderful times, but never second guess who you are, where you have been, and most importantly, where it is that you are going. Just have faith that life is happening as it should.”, Sex and the City

“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The 'sure thing' boat never gets far from shore.”
by Dale Carnegie

“I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
by Michael Jordan

“When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”
by Hugh White

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk disappointment. But risks must be taken because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, sees nothing, has nothing and is nothing. He cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love or live.”
by Unknown

“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”
by Benjamin Franklin

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider God-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, wrongly believing that he has the Gods on his side.”
by Aristotle, Politica

“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.”
by John Lennon, Sweet Baby Boy

“As progress marches on, the world gets smaller. That’s inevitable. Whether we’re separated by six degrees or ten degrees or one degree isn’t important. What is important is the idea that we are connected.”
by Steve Jackson, http://www.steve-jackson.net/six_degrees/index.html

“And strange it is / That nature must compel us to lament / Our most persisted deeds.”
by William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim and fixed their gaze on a goal which was high - one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
by Orison Swett Marden