851 Quotations Found

I think it was Balzac who said in love there is always one who is hurt and one who is bored.

Author: George MacBeth | Source: The Katana (pg 163) | Subjects: Love, Relationships

In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise.

Author: William Shakespeare | Subjects: Love, Poetry

What’s life without a past to connect it to?

Author: Brent Wade | Subjects: History, Life & Society

There are only four questions that need to be answered:

1. What is the meaning of life?
2. Of what is the Spirit made?
3. What in life is worth dying for?
4. And What in life is worth living for?

The answer to all four is LOVE.

Author: Lord Byron | Subjects: Love, Meaning

Passion is destructive, demanding, jealous. Passion goes up and down. Love is constant.

Author: Jean Mareau | Subjects: Desires, Love

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

In any time of well-being, most people, or a very large proportion of the population and the influential population, attributes the favourable situation to their own excellence and intelligence, and therefore takes leave of the problems of those who are left behind. And one can regret that human beings can be so indifferent as to the suffering, the hunger, medical disasters, living disasters of other … [ Read more ]

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Subjects: Culture, Psychology | Behavior

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Government, although representing the will of the people in a mechanical sense, can not possibly give expression to a nation’s soul. Only the voluntary, spontaneous activity of the people themselves — as expressed in their art, literature, science, education, and religion — can adequately provide a complete cultural portrait.

Author: Frank Ninkovich | Subjects: Culture, International, Politics & Public Policy

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Life & Society, Perception | Observation

We live at a moment when many people feel as guilty for not having sex as their ancestors felt for having it. The bedroom has become a battlefield – a place we go to prove ourselves, a place we go (frequently in full combat gear) to demonstrate our fitness and liberation.

Author: Cristina Nehring | Subject: Culture

If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation—our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh | Subject: Life & Society

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Author: Irving Berlin | Subjects: Attitude, Life & Society

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Author: Gelett Burgess | Subjects: Attitude, Life & Society

First principle of Systems Thinking: When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

Author: Peter Senge | Subjects: Culture, Psychology | Behavior

Economic values alone make life possible, but the moral, aesthetic, and intellectual values alone make it worth living.

Author: Peter Viereck | Subject: Life & Society

Nations, like individuals, languish when they only have uncritical lovers or unloving critics.

Author: Kishore Mahbubani | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Perception | Observation, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. […] If the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility. So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. […] But no real … [ Read more ]

Author: William Deresiewics | Subjects: Insight, IT | Technology, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Thought Starters

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Olivier’s Law | Subjects: Experience, Gratitude

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Author: Eugene Ionesco | Subjects: Dreams, Relationships