Quotations I loved: Part 1

I love quotations. Here I'll post some of the quotations I liked most. I obtained these from various sites at various times.


FREEDOM:

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
-Lawana Blackwell

She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do.
-Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
-Lenin

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
-William Hazlitt


GENIUS:

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
-Edgard Varese

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-Elbert Hubbard

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
-Oscar Levant

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
-Oscar Wilde

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
-Robertson Davies

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
-William Hazlitt


HATE:

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-Andre Gide

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
-Hermann Hesse

Let them hate, so long as they fear.
-Lucius Accius

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
-Richard M. Nixon


LIFE:

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
-Barbara Hall

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
-Dick Werthimer

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique."
-Anon.

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
-E. M. Forster

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
-W. M. Lewis

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!
-Edna St. Vincent Millay


LOVE:

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
-Anton Chekhov

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
-Iris Murdoch

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
-Jane Austen

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
-Jennifer Aniston

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
-John Barrymore

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
-Julie Morgenstern

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
-M. Scott Peck

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
-Madonna

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
-Rabbi Julius Gordon

I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
-Real Live Preacher

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
-Real Live Preacher

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
-Toni Morrison

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
-Victor Hugo

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
-W. Somerset Maugham

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
-W. Somerset Maugham

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
-W. Somerset Maugham

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
-Anon.

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
-La Bruyere

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
-Leo Buscaglia

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
-Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
-Henry Drummond

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
-David Grayson

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao-Tzu

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Theresa

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
-La Rochefoucauld

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
-Erich Segal

(to be continiued........)