quotes about love and life and happiness

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy



It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone. ~Author Unknown



As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. ~Truman Capote



Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale



Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. ~Countess of Blessington



It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ~Abraham Lincoln



Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson



The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet. ~Paul Erlich



Inking without a plan gives Booth freedom to explore the desires of those seated in his chair, he says, to feed off their energy, allowing his clients' demons to help guide the needle. ~Joshua Lipton, about tattoo artist Paul Booth, "Bad Skin," Rolling Stone, 28 March 2002



The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950



A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. ~Homer



No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ~W.H. Auden, Time, 29 December 1961 No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. ~Rita Mae Brown, speech, 28 August 1982



Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. ~Lord Rosebery



Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie



Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. ~Anso Coetzer



I have an almost religious zeal - not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ~Dan Millman