(79 quotes found)
“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”
Julia Roberts
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
Emo Philips
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
George Carlin
“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around”
Edgar Watson Howe
“There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.”
Oscar Wilde
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
“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.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”
Dale Carnegie
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe