inspirational quotes about love and life

Love is my religion - I could die for it. ~John Keats



Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. ~Wallace Stevens, 1916



I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ~Winston Churchill



Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb



The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ~George F. Will, The Leveling Wind



It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951



The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow. ~Robert Lynd



Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner



Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B. Wilcox



Coolidge was known for his terse speech and reticence. A woman bet her friend that she could get Coolidge to speak to her, which was something he was reluctant to do. She went up to him and said: "Hello, Mr. President, I bet my friend that I could get you to say three words to me." "You lose," Coolidge replied dryly, and walked away. ~Author Unknown



Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ~Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 1943



As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel



If love can't cure it, nurses can. ~Author Unknown



If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale



It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ~Mick Jagger



Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston



If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? ~Author Unknown



One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn



Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. ~Laurence van der Post



Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878