Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Some wise quotes on Life, Love and Marriage :)

These are some quotes that I’ve taken from a good book I’m reading at the minute. Called “Life’s little book of Wisdom”. I hope you enjoy them and maybe gain a little of what I have, from the many wonderful peoples words shared. Enjoy.

“The Love of a Family is Life’s Greatest blessings” Unknown.

“The heart is wiser than the intellect” Josiah Holland.

“The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake. the five most important words: You did a good job. The four most important words: What is your opinion?. The three most important words: If you please. The two most important words: thank you. The one Least important word: I”. Anonymous.

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant” Robert Louis Stevenson.
“While faith makes all things possible, It is love that makes all things easy” Gerard Manley Hopkins.
“Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone, at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer” Elbert Hubbard.

“Life’s lasting joy comes in erasing the boundary line between “mine” and “yours”. “ Unknown.
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly times Pause” Mark Twain.

“A great wife, Kids and health are a man’s greatest wealth” Unknown.

Love is saying, “I fell differently” instead of “your wrong”. “ Unknown.

“A successful Marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person” Mignon McLaughlin.

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

“Love can hope where reason would despair” George Lyttelton.

“Good company on the journey makes the way seem shorter” Izaak Walton.

“Its difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul than family life”

“ The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of god himself” Emmet Fox.

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy” Martin Luther King

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible” Virginia Satir.

"Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy” Sarah Ban Breathnach.

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love” Pearl S. Buck.

“Where we Love is home, home that our feet my leave, but not our hearts” Oliver Wendell Holmes.

“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl..No superior alternative has yet to be found” Winston Churchill.

“The test…..is not weather our commitments match our will and courage, but weather we have the will and courage to match our commitments” Lyndon B. Johnson.

“I would rather be able to appreciate the things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” Elbert Hubbard.

“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.” Seneca.

“The invariable mark wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common” Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen” Winston Churchill.

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction” Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

“You don’t love a women because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her” Unknown.

“We are not meant to be seen as God’s perfect shinning examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary lives exhibiting the miracle of his grace.” Oswald Chambers.

“When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” Leo Tolstoy.

“A man is not where is lives, but where he Loves”  Latin Proverb.

“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife.” Homer (not Simpson ha)

“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.” Agnes Repplier.

“Do not forget small kindnesses, and do not remember small faults.” Chinese Proverb.

“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.” Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.” Frederick Buechner.

“Love is a fabric that never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the waters of adversity and grief.” Unknown.

“Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.” Lyndon B Johnson.

“My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you’ll be happy.” Socrates

“We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.” Blaise Pascal.

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang van Goethe.

“The best use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”  William James.

“A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.” Unknown.

“A successful relationship comes not so much from finding the right partner but rather from being the right partner and demonstrating love, faith, hope and forgiveness.” Unknown.

“Love creates an “us” without destroying a “me”.” Unknown.

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” Voltaire.

“We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us, how we take it, what we do with it, and that is what really counts in the end.” joseph Fort Newton.

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