1. Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile!
______________________________ Excerpt from Wikipedia: Robert Doisneau (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ dwano]; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris; together with Henri Cartier-Bresson he was a pioneer of photojournalism. He is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville), a photo of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Robert Doisneau was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the National Order of the Légion d’honneur in 1984.
1. Nowadays people’s visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
2. I would never have dared to photograph people like that. Lovers kissing in the street, those couples are rarely legitimate.
3. The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
4. Chance is the one thing you can’t buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
5. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there – even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
1. 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.
2. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
3. When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomniacs! And the difference between them.
4. This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
5. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
6. Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
7. Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
8. Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
9. Travel brings power and love back into your life.
10. They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?
11. Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
12. There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.
13. To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
14. Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
15. We love and that is why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.
16. Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.
17. Look at Love … how it tangles with the one fallen in love.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (Persian: جلالالدین محمد بلخى), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (جلالالدین محمد رومی) and popularly known as Mevlānā in Turkey and Mawlānā (Persian: مولانا) in Iran and Afghanistan but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rūmī is a descriptive name meaning “Roman” since he lived most of his life in an area called “Rûm” (then under the control of Seljuq dynasty) because it was once ruled by the Eastern Roman Empire. He was one of the figures who flourished in the Sultanate of Rum.
Rumi’s works are written in the New Persian language. A Persian literary renaissance (in the 8th/9th century) started in regions of Sistan, Khorāsān and Transoxiana and by the 10th/11th century, it reinforced the Persian language as the preferred literary and cultural language in the Persian Islamic world. Rumi’s importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders. His original works are widely read in their original language across the Persian-speaking world. Translations of his works are very popular in other countries. His poetry has influenced Persian literature as well as Urdu, Punjabi and other Pakistani languages written in Perso/Arabic script e.g. Pashto and Sindhi. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world’s languages and transposed into various formats. In 2007, he was described as the “most popular poet in America.“
1. If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
2. You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
3. What you seek is seeking you.
4. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
5. Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
6. It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.
7. Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
8. Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
9. When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
10. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
11. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
12. There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?
13. Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
14. Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.
15. The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
16. Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
17. I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
18. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
19. People want you to be happy. Don’t keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.
20. Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
21. Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more – more unseen forms become manifest to him.
22. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
23. We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
24. I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
25. But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms
around you.
26. Beauty surrounds us.
27. On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
28. Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
29. When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, … When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
30. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn’t it first merely a thought and a quest?
31. The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
32. The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
1. Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.
2. I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
3. Whenever I date a guy, I think, “Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
4. I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Rita Rudner (born September 17, 1953) is an American comedienne, writer and actress.
Rudner was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of Frances, a homemaker, and Abe Rudner, a lawyer. Her mother died when she was 13. After graduating from high school at 15, Rudner left Miami and headed to New York City to embark on a career as a dancer. She appeared in several Broadway shows, including the now-legendary original productions of Follies and Mack & Mabel.
Rudner did not turn to comedy until she was 25, after observing how few female comedians there were compared to the number of female dancers. She spent many hours researching her favorite comedians, including Woody Allen and Jack Benny. She enjoys Jewish humor, but reserves her Jewish jokes for Jewish audiences.
1. A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won’t get a bikini wax.
2. I don’t plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.
3. Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
4. We’ve begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet – so we bought a dog. Well, it’s cheaper, and you get more feet.
5. I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine.
6. Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: ‘This looks much better on.’ On what? On fire?
7. Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: A woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
8. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
9. I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
10. I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don’t even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
11. My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
12. Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
13. To attract men, I wear a perfume called ‘New Car Interior.’
14. The word ‘aerobics’ came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we’re going to charge $10 an hour, we can’t call it Jumping up and down.
15. Men hate to lose. I beat my husband once at tennis. I asked him, “Will we ever make love again?” He said, “Yes…. but not with each other.
16. My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head.
17. I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, ‘Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.’ So he went out and bought a present for my mother.
18. I love to sleep. Do you? Isn’t it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.
19. Men forget everything; women remember everything. That’s why men need instant replay in sports. They’ve already forgotten what’s happened.
20. A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.
1. No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
2. Most part of a lover’s life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness.
3. To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
4. What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love’s the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
——————————— Except from Wikipedia: Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Segrave in Leicestershire.
1. A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
2. A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
3. A good conscience is a continual feast.
4. If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man’s heart.
5. The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
6. A quiet mind cureth all.
7. Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
8. Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
9. Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
10. One religion is as true as another.
11. Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
12. Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
13. How much more cruel the pen may be than the sword.
14. Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
Love quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson and famous sayings by him as well as a short excerpt of him from Wikipedia.
1. Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.
2. Thou art to me a delicious torment.
——————————————- Excerpt from Wikipedia: Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. As a result of this ground breaking work he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America’s “Intellectual Declaration of Independence“. Considered one of the great orators of the time, Emerson’s enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. His support for abolitionism late in life created controversy, and at times he was subject to abuse from crowds while speaking on the topic. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was “the infinitude of the private man.“
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Success, a poem, which is often attributed to Emerson but disputable.
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
1. What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
2. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
3. To laugh often and love much… to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one’s self… this is to have succeeded.
4. A great man is always willing to be little.
5. A man is what he thinks about all day long.
6. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
7. Always do what you are afraid to do.
8. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
9. As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
10. Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
11. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
12. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
13. Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
14. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
15. Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
16. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
17. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
18. It is not length of life, but depth of life.
19. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
20. Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
21. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
22. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
23. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
24. People only see what they are prepared to see.
25. The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
26. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
27. The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
28. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
29. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
30. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
31. With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
32. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
33. Don’t waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
1. I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
2. The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don’t know that I Love You. (According to a website which I found in Google, it said that this is not the work of Tagore but was translated from a Chinese poem to English. Can anyone verify?)
3. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
4. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
5. Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
—————————————————– Excerpt from Wikipedia: Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, pronounced [ɾobin̪d̪ɾonat̪ʰ ʈʰakuɾ]) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) as per Bengali Calendar, (২৫শে বৈশাখ, ১২৬৮ – ২২শে শ্রাবণ, ১৩৪৮ বঙ্গাব্দ), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath. He was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, educator, social reformer, nationalist, business-manager and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta, Bengal, Tagore first wrote poems at the age of eight. At the age of sixteen, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho (“Sun Lion”) and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877. In later life Tagore protested strongly against the British Raj and gave his support to the Indian Independence Movement. Tagore’s life work endures, in the form of his poetry and the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.
Tagore wrote novels, short stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays on political and personal topics. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are among his best-known works. His verse, short stories, and novels, which often exhibited rhythmic lyricism, colloquial language, meditative naturalism, and philosophical contemplation, received worldwide acclaim. Tagore was also a cultural reformer and polymath who modernised Bengali art by rejecting strictures binding it to classical Indian forms. Two songs from his canon are now the national anthems of Bangladesh and India: the Amar Shonar Bangla and the Jana Gana Mana respectively. (Read more about Rabindranath Tagore at Wikipedia)
1. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
2. By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
3. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
4. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
5. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
6. Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
7. Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
8. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
9. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
10. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
11. Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
12. He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
13. I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
14. Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
15. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
16. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
17. Those who own much have much to fear.
18. You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
19. Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not cave in.
Let only that little be left of me
whereby I may name thee my all.
Let only that little be left of my will
whereby I may feel thee on every side,
and come to thee in everything,
and offer to thee my love every moment.
Let only that little be left of me
whereby I may never hide thee.
Let only that little of my fetters be left
whereby I am bound with thy will,
and thy purpose is carried out in my life
and that is the fetter of thy love.
1. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
——————————————– Excerpt from Wikipedia: Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899) was a Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism.
1. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
————————————— Excerpt from Wikipedia: Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and art critic. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. Among English-language readers, his best-known work is the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
1. Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
2. I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
3. I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
4. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
5. It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
6. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
7. The only journey is the one within.
8. Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.
9. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Famous Love Quotes and Love Sayings from Ralph Connor
1. Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
————————————– Excerpt from Wikipedia: Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon, or Ralph Connor, (September 13, 1860 – October 31, 1937) was a Canadian novelist, using the Connor pen name while maintaining his status as a Church leader, first in the Presbyterian and later the United churches in Canada. Gordon was also at one time a master at Upper Canada College. He sold more than five million copies of his works in his lifetime, and some of his works are still in print.
Gordon was born in Glengarry County, Ontario, the son of Rev. Daniel Gordon (1822–1910) and Mary Robertson Gordon (d. 1890). His father was a Free Church of Scotland Missionary in Upper Canada. The family moved from Glengarry to Harrington, Oxford County, Ontario when he was a youth. Like many other young men in the area, Gordon went to Toronto to study at University of Toronto. He then attended Knox College and graduated with distinction in 1886.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Robert Doisneau (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ dwano]; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris; together with Henri Cartier-Bresson he was a pioneer of photojournalism. He is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville), a photo of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Robert Doisneau was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the National Order of the Légion d’honneur in 1984.
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