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People know authors for their insight and wisdom, and whether they're writing now or centuries ago, we can gain valuable life skills by reviewing these writings. Albeit wise, funny or insightful, many of these authors have made a huge difference to people's lives. From loving to losing to getting things done on a deadline, quotes by authors can provide us with a great deal of insight into the subjects which mean the most to us
Nelson Mandela
- “A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”
- “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
- “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Dalai Lama
- "Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health."
- "Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace."
- “The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.”
- "We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
- "The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness."
- "You can't blame gravity for falling in love." – Albert Einstein
- "Love is friendship that has caught fire. […] It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." – Ann Landers
- "Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." – Mother Teresa
- "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." – Oscar Wilde
- "Where there is love, there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi
- "If you wish to be loved, love." – Seneca
- "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." – Max Müller
- "Love is the flower you've got to let grow." – John Lennon
- "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott
- "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." – Nicholas Sparks
- "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn
- "Stolen kisses are always sweetest."
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- Leigh Hunt
- "I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone." – J.R.R. Tolkien
- "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." – Dr. Seuss
- "If I know what love is, it is because of you." – Hermann Hesse
- "Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." – Ben Hecht
- "To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed." – Valerie Lombardo
- "A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him." – Brendan Francis
- "You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." – Mr. Darcy, "Pride and Prejudice"
- Stealing your heart was the perfect crime.
- Being with you is my favorite feeling.
- You make my heart smile.
- Did you know I have the best partner ever? I did.
- Some say a picture is worth a thousand words. When I look at your picture, I am completely speechless!
- I never believed the words in love songs until I met you.
- You are the cheese to my pizza, and that's saying something!
- Even in a museum full of paintings, I would choose to gaze at you.
- You are a masterpiece!
- I think I would miss you dearly if we had never met.
- I love you every step of the way!
- Come to my dreams if you can. I'll kiss you there.
- Tonight I'll fall asleep with you in my heart.
- You will be the last thing I think of before I fall to sleep and the first thing to remember when I wake up.
- Every day I spend with you is the new best day of my life. Can't wait for the morning. Good night.
- My days are worth it if I can end them with you by my side. Good night.
- Sleeping is impossible when all I can think about is you. Good night!
- The brightest thing in this world are your eyes when you look at me. I don't want to see stars, but your eyes. Have a good night.
- Before I fall asleep, I always picture what it would feel like to fall asleep in your arms. It's the best feeling in the world.
- I'm in my bed, you're in your bed. One of us is in the wrong place.
- Every night I love coming back home. Because home is being in your arms. Good night.
- "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything." –Katharine Hepburn
- "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud." — 1 Corinthians 13
- "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." — Henry Miller
- "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." — Zora Neale Hurston
- "Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold." – Zelda Fitzgerald
- "I am grateful that you were born, that your love is mine, and our two lives are woven and welded together." — Mark Twain
- "Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time." — Maya Angelou
- "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." — Oprah Winfrey
- "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever." — Alfred Tennyson
- "The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt
- "We are most alive when we are in love." — John Updike
- "Love does not dominate; it cultivates." — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." —Aristotle
- "We're all a little weird, and life's a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it LOVE." — Dr. Seuss
- "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." — A. A. Milne
- "I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything." —F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." — Charles Dickens
- "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." — Vladimir Nabokov
- "Who being loved, is poor?" — Oscar Wilde
- "I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you." — Roy Croft
- "If I know what love is, it is because of you." — Hermann Hesse
- "The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough." — Yoko Ono
- "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." — Dr. Seuss
- "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." — Paulo Coelho