Robert Lembke quotes

“Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.”
-- Robert Lembke

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“Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.”
-- Robert Lembke

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“When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.”
-- Robert Lembke

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“Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.”
-- Robert Lembke

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“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

“I love you,” I said, causing his face to contort in pain. “I’m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. I’m an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.” Hot tears streamed down my face as I stared into the face of someone who comprehended an emotion much stronger than my weak, feeble words of love.”

“Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.”

“In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.”

Source : Abel Bonnard (1933). “The Art of Friendship”

“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com

“An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.”

“The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.179

“Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.”

“It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.”

“Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.”