Famous Life Quotes...2

Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
Anonymous

An attitude of allowing life and people to be their unpredictable selves, while maintaining a positive inner attitude that has security either way, can bring every-increasing rates of success, personally and professionally.
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates 

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin 

It’s just so uninteresting to live without love. Life has not risk. Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.
Toni Morrison 

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
Annie Dillard 

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington 

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer

…..Because we don’t know [when we will die], we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times. and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
Novelist Poul Bowles

It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
Unknown

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson

If you wait to be GIVEN something in life, you’re in for a lifelong wait.
Ed Mirvish

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Levi Strauss

Famous Life Quotes...

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Unknown

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins

I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.
Joyce Cary

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Pierre de Courbertin

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer


Life beats down and imprisons the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler


A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed–I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau


When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then figure out how to sell it for $5.00 a glass.
John Woodman


The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
David O. McKay


It’s your life, your one and only life-so take excellence very personally.
Scott Johnson


Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer


It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
William James


Life is too deep for words.
so don’t try to describe it -
just live it.
Unknown


Our life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.
Thomas Brooks


You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe


Since life and experience is a matter of trial-and-error, there’s no need to take choosing – or life itself – too seriously.
Soren Lauritzen


We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
William Osler


It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca


Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy


To win in life, don’t fear in life.
Unknown


Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life…….Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Franki


The sound of life has divine silence.
Kedar Joshi


I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed – because there’s joy in my life.
Michael J. Fox


A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live.
Unknown


Where you end up is not the most important thing. It’s the road you take to get there. The road is what you’ll look back on and call your life.
Tim Willey


Life is about laughing and living, in good and bad times. Getting through whatever comes our way and looking back and smiling.
Unknown


Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer


At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t
Andy Roddick

There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Unknown

It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green


You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.
Unknown


I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.
Anne Heche

झील और चाँद

झील और चाँद

झील की खामोशी
रात की स्याही
एक सर्द कोहरा
... हवा बेसुध
और बहुत गहरे में
गूंजता कोई विरह गीत
और फिर तुम्हारी नजरें उठी
हवा ने सुना दर्द
पुकारा उस बादल को
जो रहता था पहाड़ों के उस पार
ढूँढ लाया वो चाँद को
और फिर तुम मुस्कुराई
चाँद ने चूमा
झील की सतह को
ख़ामोशी टूटी, चाँदनी जागी
और फिर तुमने पलकें झपकाई
इस छोर से उस छोर तक
सिर्फ हलचल
फूट पड़ी कोई कविता
कितने शब्द तरंग बनते चले गए
जब थरथराए तुम्हारे होंठ

~Gopi Nath~

Will you ever?

I don't think you will
ever fully understand
how you've touched my life
and made me who I am.

I don't think you could ever know
just how truly special you are
that even on the darkest nights
you are my brightest star.

I don't think you will ever fully comprehend
how you've made my dreams come true
or how you've opened my heart
to love and the wonders it can do.

You've allowed me to experience
something very hard to find
unconditional love that exists
in my body, soul, and mind.

I don't think you could ever feel
all the love I have to give
and I'm sure you'll never realize
you've been my will to live.

You are an amazing person
and without you I don't know where I'd be.
Having you in my life
completes and fulfills every part of me.

- Erica -

Because Of You....

Because of you
my world is now whole,
Because of you
love lives in my soul.
Because of you
I have laughter in my eyes,
Because of you
I am no longer afraid of good-byes.
You are my pillar
my stone of strength,
With me through all seasons
and great times of length.
My love for you is pure
boundless through space and time,
it grows stronger everyday
with the knowledge that you'll always be mine.
At the altar
I will joyously say 'I do',
for I have it all now
and it's all because of you.

- Written and owned by Amy S. Bedford -

Perfection in my Eyes.....

All I ever wanted was to be part of your heart,
And for us to be together, to never be apart.

No one else in the world can even compare,
You're perfect and so is this love that we share.

We have so much more than I ever thought we would,
I love you more than I ever thought I could.

I promise to give you all I have to give,
I'll do anything for you as long as I live.

In your eyes I see our present, our future and past,
By the way you look at me I know we will last.

I hope that one day you'll come to realize,
How perfect you are when seen through my eyes.

- Ashley Borden -

Unlicensed Love....

On a summer's day long, long ago
I fell in love and I'll never know
Just what it was that made me feel
So drawn to her, what the appeal
That set my pulses so to race
When e'er I gazed upon that face
Of one who was scarce but a child
Yet even then could drive me wild
I'll never know the how's and why's
I lost my heart to Hazel Eyes
But when I got that long sought kiss
I knew I'd found my Perfect Miss
My elfin girl from down the lane
And I'll never let her go again

For how could I describe our love?
Romantic love, all hearts and flowers
No way to count the days and hours
Spent in self-indulgent wishes
And thoughts of long awaited kisses
Of sweet embraces, tender sighs
And gazing into love filled eyes
Oh yes, it is that kind of love

Or, is it yet the love of passion
The ecstasy that knows no ration
That shuddering nerve-tingling feeling
The climax with your senses reeling
The wondrous joy when you discover
That sweet surrender to your lover
Oh yes, it's that kind of love too.

Or even yet a love that grows
One that cares and one that knows
That sees beyond the outer skin
Into the person deep within
That loves the spirit and the soul
The inner self that makes the whole
Built on trust and empathy
A love you know was meant to be

The love we share is all these things
A love that has no need of rings
A love you never need to doubt
A love I cannot live without
A love to last us all our days
A love I'll share with you always

- Jim Sharman -

Pledge of Love.....

I've made a vow, to no one but you
I pledge my love to forever be true
I'll take care of you and treat you right
I'll lay beside you all through the night
I'll feed you and clothe you and keep you warm
I'll hug you and kiss you and give shelter in the storm
I'll help you and guide you and clear a path
I'll protect you and shield you from an angry man's wrath
I'll listen to your problems help you solve them too
I'll make you a rainbow and let the sun shine through
I'll take your side even if you're wrong
Just to prove our love is strong
I'll plant you flowers and make them grow
They'll be a symbol of love that only we'll know
I'll whisper your name when no one is near
So low that only you can hear
You'll feel my love even if we're apart
You'll know that we are one in heart

- Vesta Sikora -

यह वर्षा ॠतु की संध्या है....

   

यह वर्षा ॠतु की संध्या है,
मैं बरामदे में कुर्सी पर
घिरा अँधेरे से बैठा हूँ
बँगले से स्विच आँफ़ सभी कर,
उठे आज परवाने इतने
कुछ प्रकाश में करना दुष्कर,
नहीं कहीं जा भी सकता हूँ
होती बूँदा-बाँदी बाहर।

उधर कोठरी है नौकर की
एक दीप उसमें बलता है,
सभी ओर से उसमें आकर
परवानों का दल जलता है,
ज्योति दिखाता ज्वाला देता
दिया पतिंगों को छलता है,
नहीं पतिंगों का दीपक के
ऊपर कोई वश चलता है।

है दिमाग़ में चक्कर करती
एक फ़ारसी की रूबाई,
शायद यह इकबाल-रचित है
किसी मित्र ने कभी सुनाई;
मेरे मनोभाव की इसके
अंदर है कुछ-कुछ परछाई।

’दिल दीवाना, दिल परवाना,
तज दीपक लौ पर मँड़राना,
कब सीखेगा पाँव बढ़ाना
उस पथ पर जो है मर्दाना।
ज्वाला है खुद तेरे अंदर,
जलना उसमें सीख निरंतर,
उस ज्वाला में जल क्या पाना
जो बेगाना, जो बेगाना।’१

---

१ दिला नादानिये परवाना ताके,
नगीरी शेवए मर्दाना ताके,
यके खुद राज़ सोज़ें ख़ेसतन सोज,
तवाफ़े आतिशे बेगाना ताके।

 
~ हरिवंशराय बच्चन ~

For You Are The One....

For you I would climb
The highest mountain peak
Swim the deepest ocean
Your love I do seek.

For you I would cross
The rivers most wide
Walk the hottest desert sand
To have you by my side.

For you are the one
Who makes me whole
You've captured my heart
And touched my soul.

For you are the one
That stepped out of my dreams
Gave me new hope
Showed me what love means.

For you alone
Are my reason to live
For the compassion you show
And the care that you give.

You came into my life
And made me complete
Each time I see you
My heart skips a beat.

For you define beauty
In both body and mind
Your soft, gentle face
More beauty I'll ne'er find.

For you are the one
God sent from above
The angel I needed
For whom I do love.

- Chris Messick -

The Meaning....

To love is to share life together
to build special plans just for two
to work side by side
and then smile with pride
as one by one, dreams all come true.

To love is to help and encourage
with smiles and sincere words of praise
to take time to share
to listen and care
in tender, affectionate ways.

To love is to have someone special
one who you can always depend
to be there through the years
sharing laughter and tears
as a partner, a lover, a friend.

To love is to make special memories
of moments you love to recall
of all the good things
that sharing life brings
love is the greatest of all.

I've learned the full meaning
of sharing and caring
and having my dreams all come true;
I've learned the full meaning
of being in love
by being and loving with you.

- Kellie Spehn -

I thought love was.......

I thought love was just a mirage of the mind,
it's an illusion, it's fake, impossible to find.
But the day I met you, I began to see,
that love is real, and exists in me.

- Chris Farmer -

Love Defined....

What is love, but an emotion,
So strong and so pure,
That nurtured and shared with another
All tests it will endure?

What is love, but a force
To bring the mighty low,
With the strength to shame the mountains
And halt time’s ceaseless flow?

What is love, but a triumph,
A glorious goal attained,
The union of two souls, two hearts
A bond the angels have ordained?

What is love, but a champion,
To cast the tyrant from his throne,
And raise the flag of truth and peace,
And fear of death o’erthrow?

What is love, but a beacon,
To guide the wayward heart,
A blazing light upon the shoals
That dash cherished dreams apart?

And what is love, but forever,
Eternal and sincere,
A flame that through wax and wane
Will outlive life’s brief years?

So I’ll tell it on the mountaintops,
In all places high and low,
That love for you is my reason to be,
And will never break or bow.

- Matt Dubois -

Love Me.....

Love me in the Springtime, when all is green and new,
Love me in the Summer, when the sky is oh so blue,
Love me in the Autumn, when the leaves are turning brown,
Love me in the Winter, when the snow is falling down.

Love me when I'm happy, and even when I'm sad,
Love me when I'm good, or when I'm oh so bad,
Love me when I'm pretty, or if my face is plain,
Love me when I'm feeling good, or when I'm feeling pain.

Love me always darlin', in the rain or shining sun,
Love me always darlin', after all is said and done,
Love me always darlin', until all our life is through,
Love me always darlin', for I'll be lovin' you!

- Amanda Nicole Martinez -

Love...

Love is like a lump of gold,
Hard to get, and hard to hold.
Of all the girls I've ever met,
You're the one I can't forget.
I do believe that God above,
Created you for me to love.
He chose you from all the rest,
Because he knew I would love you best.

- Loy Bowman -

My Love......

My love is like an ocean
It goes down so deep
My love is like a rose
Whose beauty you want to keep.

My love is like a river
That will never end
My love is like a dove
With a beautiful message to send.

My love is like a song
That goes on and on forever
My love is like a prisoner
It's to you that I surrender.

- Tasha Shores -

A White Rose

The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
But I send you a cream-white rosebud
With a flush on its petal tips;
For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

- J B O'Reilly (1844-1890) -

All the love that history knows.....

All the love that history knows,
is said to be in every rose.
Yet all that could be found in two,
is less than what I feel for you.

- Author Unknown -

When I'm with you,

When I'm with you,
eternity is a step away,
my love continues to grow,
with each passing day.

This treasure of love,
I cherish within my soul,
how much I love you...
you'll never really know.

You bring a joy to my heart,
I've never felt before,
with each touch of your hand,
I love you more and more.

Whenever we say goodbye,
whenever we part,
know I hold you dearly,
deep inside my heart.

So these seven words,
I pray you hold true,
"Forever And Always,
I Will Love You."

- Chris Engle -

I Will Love You Forever

I love you so deeply,
I love you so much,
I love the sound of your voice
And the way that we touch.
I love your warm smile
And your kind, thoughtful way,
The joy that you bring
To my life every day.
I love you today
As I have from the start,
And I'll love you forever
With all of my heart.

- Amanda Nicole Martinez -

Love Is ...

Love is the greatest feeling,
Love is like a play,
Love is what I feel for you,
Each and every day,
Love is like a smile,
Love is like a song,
Love is a great emotion,
That keeps us going strong,
I love you with my heart,
My body and my soul,
I love the way I keep loving,
Like a love I can't control,
So remember when your eyes meet mine,
I love you with all my heart,
And I have poured my entire soul into you,
Right from the very start.

- Meghan -

Your Name

I wrote your name in the sky,
but the wind blew it away.
I wrote your name in the sand,
but the waves washed it away.
I wrote your name in my heart,
and forever it will stay.

- Jessica Blade -

Never Have I Fallen

Your lips speak soft sweetness
Your touch a cool caress
I am lost in your magic
My heart beats within your chest

I think of you each morning
And dream of you each night
I think of your arms being around me
And cannot express my delight

Never have I fallen
But I am quickly on my way
You hold a heart in your hands
That has never before been given away

- Rex A. Williams -

What I Love About You

I love the way you look at me,
Your eyes so bright and blue.
I love the way you kiss me,
Your lips so soft and smooth.

I love the way you make me so happy,
And the ways you show you care.
I love the way you say, "I Love You,"
And the way you're always there.

I love the way you touch me,
Always sending chills down my spine.
I love that you are with me,
And glad that you are mine.

- Crystal Jansen -

An Entrapment

My love, I have tried with all my being
to grasp a form comparable to thine own,
but nothing seems worthy;

I know now why Shakespeare could not
compare his love to a summer’s day.
It would be a crime to denounce the beauty
of such a creature as thee,
to simply cast away the precision
God had placed in forging you.

Each facet of your being
whether it physical or spiritual
is an ensnarement
from which there is no release.
But I do not wish release.
I wish to stay entrapped forever.
With you for all eternity.
Our hearts, always as one.

- Anthony Kolos -

A Special World

A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.

Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.

And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.

- Sheelagh Lennon -

अंधेरी रात में दूधिया बारिश

अंधेरी रात में सड़कों पर दूधिया बारिश हो रही है
और

लोग अपने-अपने बिस्तरों पर
लिहाफ़ों में दुबके
नींद आने से पहले
उन पहाड़ों के बारे में सोच रहे हैं
जिनकी ऊँचाइयों तक
बादल कभी नहीं पहुँच पाते। छत से

परे के आकाश को वे सिर्फ़ सपनों में
मंज़ूर करेंगे। और
सबेरे तक
वे पंख झड़ चुकेंगे
जिनके सहारे उन्होंने अतीत और भविष्य के बीच
उड़ानें भरी होंगी

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