The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
– Dennis P. Kimbro
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
— Lucille Ball
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
– William James
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
— Plato
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
– Josiah Gilbert
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
– Will Rogers
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
– Erma Bombeck
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
— Alfred Tennyson
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
– Benjamin Disraeli
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
— Blaise Pascal
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
— Morrie Schwartz
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
— Lao Tzu
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
— Roy Croft
Love is a friendship set to music.
— Joseph Campbell
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
— Eleanor Roosevelt