100+ Life And Love Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Louisa May Alcott (2015). “The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…”, p.570, e-artnow

topic: Life And Love, And Love, Little Women

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Life And Love, Done, Want, Busy Person

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

- Lucy Larcom

topic: Life And Love, Cheerful, Inspired, Heavenly Love

It's good to shut up sometimes.

- Marcel Marceau

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life And Love

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Inspirational, Karma, Life And Love, Aimlessness, Bad Thoughts

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

source: Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Brutus”, Loeb Classical Library

topic: Children, Life And Love, Philosophical, Family History, Roman Philosophers

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Inspiring, Honesty, Life And Love, Inventing

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.

- Mark Victor Hansen

topic: Life And Love, Goal, Tendencies, Trainers, Always Room For Improvement

All real living is meeting.

- Martin Buber

source: Martin Buber (2012). “I and Thou”, p.23, eBookIt.com

topic: Life And Love, Real, Meetings

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Life And Love, People, Great People

Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

- Mary Alice

topic: Life And Love, People, Way, Closest, Fragile Things

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

topic: Life And Love, Drama, Book

When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.

- Melody Beattie

topic: Life And Love, Simple, Hands, Best God

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Sports, Life And Love, Sweat, Exhaustion, Soccer Training

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

- Michelangelo

topic: Life And Love, Heart, Eye, Splendour, Ignite

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Life And Love, Creativity, Order

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

- Mike Tyson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Life And Love, Fighting

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Sports, Life And Love, Rip, Popular Sports, Mike

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

topic: Life And Love, Accomplished

Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Beautiful, Jesus, Life And Love

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

- Nachman of Breslov

topic: Life And Love, Today, Needs, Better Tomorrow

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

- Natalie Babbitt

topic: Life And Love, Live Life, Forever, Afraid Of Death, Life Well Lived

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

- Neil Gaiman

source: Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.189, A&C Black

topic: Life And Love, Pain, Path, Buried Treasure

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

- Og Mandino

topic: Motivational, Art, Life And Love, Lentils, Benefactors

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Lonely, Memories, Life And Love, Love And Flower

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

- Orison Swett Marden

source: Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.3113, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Life And Love

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

- Paul Kurtz

source: Paul Kurtz “Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz”, Transaction Publishers

topic: Life And Love, Tree, Fruit, Tree Of Life, Succulents

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

- Pericles

topic: Life And Love, Waiting, Counselor

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

- Pierre Corneille

topic: Life And Love, Revenge, Hatred, Exacting Revenge, Taking Revenge

As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of life and love? And as believers, how can we fail to feel the duty to surround the sick and those in distress with the warmth of our affection and the support that will help them always to embrace life?

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Suicide, Life And Love, Sick, Embrace Life, Assisted Suicide

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

- Queen Elizabeth II

topic: Life And Love, Monopoly

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

- Ram Dass

topic: Life And Love, Self Esteem, Perfection, Shortcomings

A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.

- Rheta Grimsley Johnson

topic: Life And Love, Men, Drones

Our company has indeed stumbled onto some of its new products. But never forget that you can only stumble if you're moving.

- Richard Carlton

topic: Life And Love, Moving, Never Forget, New Products

Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.

- Ricky Gervais

source: FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jun 17, 2014

topic: Fun, Life And Love, Laughing, Death With Dignity, Celebration Of Life

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

- Rihanna

topic: Life And Love, Heart, Thinking, Love And Broken Heart

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

- Robert Bork

topic: Life And Love, Government, Law

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

- Robert E. Lee

topic: Life And Love, Men, Civil War, True Gentleman, True Man

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

- Robert Frost

topic: Change, Life And Love, Advice

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

- Robert Orben

topic: Motivational, Life And Love, People, Power And Control, Discipline And Self Control

In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved, And our seeking is His seeking And our words are His words... We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him. Sitting by His side, we ask: 'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'

- Rumi

topic: Life And Love, Shadow, Sitting

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

- Saint Francis de Sales

topic: Inspirational, Life And Love, Self Esteem, Great Self Esteem

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

- Sam Ewing

topic: Inspirational, Life And Love, Humorous

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Honesty, Life And Love, Years

You are beautiful and brilliant and bold and so very passionate about life and love and those things that you believe in. And you taught me that everything I believed, everything I thought I wanted, everything I had spent my life espousing--all of it...it is wrong. I want your version of life...vivid and emotional and messy and wonderful and filled with happiness. But I cannot have it without you.

- Sarah MacLean

topic: Beautiful, Life And Love, Believe, You Are Beautiful

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

- Sidney Sheldon

source: Sidney Sheldon (2005). “The other side of me”

topic: Life And Love, Ideas, Life Is Like, Suspense Novels

The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.

- Simon Pegg

topic: Life And Love, Zombie, Film

Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

- Simon R. Green

source: Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.206, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

topic: Life And Love, Making Love, Matter

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

- Simone de Beauvoir

topic: Life And Love, Intelligent, Able, Resourceful

The love I have for our wildlife is so great, it fills my world. After Black Saturday I saw a world that was black and white, void of animals and humans. What I missed most was the love and life of living with the wildlife. Each day I think of the ones gone and there is a deep hole in my heart. I did not miss the humans or the sounds they make, I missed the animals the sounds of peace and love that came from them. Such beauty and harmony with nature, only animals can be that smart.

- Stella Reid

topic: Beauty, Life And Love, Smart, Hole In My Heart

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

- Stephen Levine

source: Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.18, Anchor

topic: Jesus, Life And Love, Maps, Road Maps

Life and love go on...

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Life And Love, And Love, Goes On

Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Life And Love, Ideas, Joy

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Letting Go, Life And Love, Moving, Time To Let Go

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Life And Love

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Life And Love, Government, Politics, Oppressive Governments, Eternal Vigilance

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

- Thomas Traherne

source: Thomas Traherne, Dick Davis (1980). “Selected writings of Thomas Traherne”, Carcanet Pr

topic: Life And Love, Spring, Men

For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a momentâ€” the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.

- Tiffanie DeBartolo

topic: Life And Love, Believe, Past

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

- Tommy Lasorda

topic: Girl, Sports, Life And Love, Just Doing Me, Burned Out

Some people live their lives as if each day will be their last. Some approach love the same way, in a desperate attempt to outrun the tiny changes or huge ones that are always looming on each of our horizons. But the sense of urgency that comes from wanting to experience life and love to the fullest can force decisions that are not always in your best interests or anyone else's, for that matter. In fact, sometimes facing the consequences of your choices can be even worse than death. You may live only once, but you don't necessarily want it to feel like forever.

- Tonya Hurley

source: Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.11, Hachette UK

topic: Life And Love, People, Choices, Looming

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

- Tryon Edwards

topic: Life And Love, Sunshine, Shadow, Happy Sunshine

Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

- Warsan Shire

topic: Life And Love, Betrayal, Two, Shire

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

- Will Rogers

topic: Life And Love, Business, Blow

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

- William James

topic: Life And Love, Exercise, Effort

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

- Wilt Chamberlain

source: Wilt Chamberlain, David Shaw (1973). “Wilt: Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire who Lives Next Door”

topic: Life And Love, Use, Why Not

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Life And Love, Humorous, Eagles, Parrots, War Victory

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

- Woody Allen

topic: Witty, Life And Love, Humorous, Annie Hall, Blind People

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

- Xunzi

topic: Life And Love, Two, Attempting, Two Roads, New Roads

Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

- Yehuda Berg

source: FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 07, 2016

topic: Hurt, Pain, Life And Love, Grimace

He was a man, he always performed his promises.

- Zebulon Pike

topic: Life And Love, Men, Promise

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Life And Love, Congratulations, Entrepreneur, Natural Ability, Utilization

Rainbows is a pretty honest look at my approach to life and love. While I admit to not exactly being an angel, I do try and live life to the fullest and give as much as I can of myself in the process

- Beccy Cole

topic: Life And Love, Live Life, Angel

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

- Martin Laird

topic: Life And Love, Wind, Trying

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.

- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

topic: Life And Love, Enemy, Rooms, Jesus Inspirational, Revival In America

I am a girl who loves life and loves people and I find that in this life there are more good people than bad and that is who I choose to surround myself with.

- Ruby Gettinger

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Girl, Life And Love, Love Life

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

- Sarah Barthel

topic: Life And Love, Writing, Love And Death

You can learn to write. But what you write is something that depends on your taste and on your vision or whatever. Also, of course, the music I listened to inspired my idea of music. When people ask me "Where's your inspiration? Where does it come from?" I have no idea. Music is about music. Not about life and love.

- Nils Frahm

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Life And Love, Inspiration, Writing

Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.

- Debora Spar

topic: Life And Love, Lying, Responsibility

Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl Love means suffering-those who love drag a chain with them. To her it was not a belief but a certainty Trifling incident gains importance when undue emphasis is laid.

- Georg Ebers

source: Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Girl, Christian, Life And Love, Hate Life, Girl Love

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895~1899 (Abridged)”, p.55, BIG BYTE BOOKS

topic: Love, Life And Love, Love You

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.435, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

topic: Life And Love, Eye, Despair, Mystery Of Death

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Life And Love, Remember Who You Are, Just Be Yourself

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.290

topic: Morning, Life And Love, Up Early

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

- Paul Goodman

topic: Life And Love, Eye, Men

When we come to the end of our days, the little things will seem so unimportant compared to how well we've loved, laughed and treasured our lives and loved ones.

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

topic: Life And Love, Littles, Little Things

All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That's the whole point.

- Paul Simon

topic: Faith, Life And Love, Enjoy Life

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

- Paulo Coelho

source: Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

topic: Life And Love, Party, Future, Alchemist Love, Happy Man

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

- Lord Byron

topic: Life And Love, Mean, Thinking

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

- Alan Watts

source: Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.53, Souvenir Press

topic: Inspiring, Life And Love, Attitude, Be Spontaneous

Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.

- Frederick William Robertson

source: Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

topic: Life And Love, Attachment, Eternal Love, Susceptible

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

- Garrett Hedlund

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Life And Love, Looks, World

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

- Clive Barker

source: FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Nov 02, 2012

topic: Art, Life And Love, Band

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Life And Love, Skills, Challenges