Quotes by Authors - Page 143

Ultimately love is self-approval.
Sondra Ray
Love is not what we become but who we already are.
Stephen Levine
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there.
Erma Bombeck
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love . . . We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.
Barbara Sher
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
We are most alive when we're in love.
John Updike
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us it is not true love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
In the coldest February as in every other month in every other year the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
Linda Ellerbee
Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.
Gerald Jampolsky
Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe an unconditional state that characterizes human nature a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.
Emily Hilburn Sell
Nine times out of ten when you extend your arms to someone they will step in because basically they need precisely what you need.
Leo Buscaglia
Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky
The essence of love is kindness.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.
C.S. Lewis
The issue is not so much being loved but being loving which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.
Carol Pearson
Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Brian Dyson
It is this intangible thing love in many forms which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals which comforts and restores which works what we have to call - for now - miracles.
Karl Menninger
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still to lovel
Victor Hugo
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.
Emmet Fox
Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important.
Janet Lane
It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song but the man who is worthwhile is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Anonymous
A little work a little play To keep us going - and so good-day!
George du Maurier
It's good to play and you must keep in practice.
Jerry Seinfeld
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it life just doesn't taste good.
Lucia Capacchione
Laughter is a gift everyone should open.
Gene Mitchener
The child in you like all children loves to laugh to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives the better.
Wayne Dyer
When we can laugh through our tears we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad but they cannot be all that bad.
Allen Klein
A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .
Arthur Asa Berger
Shared laughter is love made audible.
Izzy Gesell
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.
Victor Hugo
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
Laurence J. Peter
It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Norman Cousins
Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
J.M. Barrie
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
Laughing deeply is living deeply.
Milan Kundera
Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
In every job relationship or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are
Allen Klein
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!
David Saltzman
Although a lot can be learned from adversity most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
Peter McWilliams
Blessed are the joymakers.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Joy is your birthright.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
Melba Colgrove
When we feel joyful euphoric happy we are more open to life more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
Leo Buscaglia
As you express joy you draw it out of those you meet creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express the more joy you experience.
Arnold Patent
Joy increases as you give it and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Norman Vincent Peale
You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.
Torkom Saraydarian
Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Simplicity clarity singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Richard Halloway
If we could learn how to balance rest against effort calmness against strain quiet against turmoil we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.
Josephine Rathbone
People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.
Margaret Collier Graham
We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
Christiane Collange
When we align our thoughts emotions and actions with the highest part of ourselves we are filled with enthusiasm purpose and meaning. . . . We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power.
Gary Zukav
Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe's way of knocking on your mind's door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good I The message is that you are happy and that means that you are in touch with your purpose.
Steve Chandler
There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes . . . we don't. Still the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.
Allen Klein