Quotes of the day

1. " You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb" Andrew Carnegie



2. " Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."  Robert Collier



3. " Goals are fuel in the furnace of achievement. Brian Tracy


Love Quotes

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

 

Alan Watts

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

 

Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

 

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

 

Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

 

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

 

Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

 

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

 

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love

 

Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

It is the caring and sharing that count—love is not prevented by the things and the time that you haven’t shared.

Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

 

David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

 

David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

 

Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

 

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993