Inspiration
I've spent many years collecting quotes. Most are sad quotes, my life is a sad tale. When I found love my quotes started to revolve around love and the joys it brings which you can read below, but when that fairy tale ended I went back to collecting sad quotes. Now, I guess I just collect what I like, what makes sense and what touches a part of meeh. This post will never stop it will be edited numerous times and my quote list will grow. Hopefully the things I find inspirational will inspirte you as well, for after all that is what we all strive for... is it not? Inspiration.
There are many things in life that may catch your eye,
But only a few will catch your heart.
Love is like playing the piano.
First you learn to play by the rules,
Then you must forget the rules and play from the heart.
Loving someone, is giving that someone the power to hurt you...
The overwhelming frustration
Of not being able to express
My love in words,
But the satisfaction that you know.
Love will not appear in command by one's heart,
But will reveal itself one way or another unexpectedly.
I dare not kiss so lovely a lady
I only have one heart to lose
To trust is to unshield your heart and place a dagger in the hand of another
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain.
To try is to risk failure,
But risk must be taken,
Because the greatest hazard in life
Is to risk nothing
Love is much like a wild rose,
Beautiful and calm,
But willing to draw blood in its defense
Love doesn't make the world go round,
Love is what makes the ride worth while.
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see
And knows what the mind cannot understand.
You never lose from loving,
You lose from holding back
The greatest weakness of most humans
Is their hesitancy to tell others,
How much they love them
While they're alive.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?
Love is everything it's cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical about it.
It really is worth fighting for,
Being brave for,
Risking everything for.
And the trouble is,
If you don't risk anything,
You risk even more.
The only feeling of real loss
Is when you love someone
More than you love your self.
"Love like you have never been hurt."
Is that even possible?
I mean you’re supposed to learn from mistakes
So how can you love like you have never been hurt?
Because to never get hurt again
You analyze why you got hurt
And attempt to learn from that.
So you will always love like you have been hurt.
To avoid getting hurt again. - This one is by meeh
Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle...rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be.
Who is this in which you don't see
Gazing skyward continuously?
The one staring back, into you.
With abiding sorrow for none to view?
Question asked, answer unfound
Forever entrapped, forever hell bound.
It is me whom you view
Now I ask, who are you?
Trust me...You do love him, sometimes we love people so much we become numb to it...because if we felt how much we really love them...It could kill us.
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. It's not the saying, but the never needing to say it that counts.
Letting go of the people that matter to you, only to become someone you’re not, will lead to emptiness you never sought.
Sometimes you just look at someone and think, should I love them for who they were, hate them for who they are now, or feel sorry for them because they had to change.
I've learned that a best friend is someone you can do anything with or nothing with and still have the best time.
Too many of us stay walled because we're afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear the other person doesn't care at all. - Eleanor Roosevelt
When you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't in us doesn't disturb us. - Hermann Hesse
Why does it only take a second to say hello but forever to say good-bye?
Real love means more than flowers, means more than beautiful words. Real love is keeping promises, Holding on when you don't want to, Being strong so that others may rest, And as time and change swirl around us, The love we share stands quietly, In the midst of our lives, Forever beautiful, Forever real.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When someone's in your life for a reason, it's usually to assist you through a difficulty and provide you with guidance and support. They may seem like a godsend, and they are. Then, without warning, something will bring the relationship to an end. What we must realize is that their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it's time to move on. Then people come into your life for a season. ‘Cause your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They may teach you something you have never done and they give you unbelievable joy. Believe it, it's real. But, only for a season. Lifetime relationships teach lifetime lessons: things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
I’m jealous of every girl that’s ever hugged you… cause for that one moment she held my entire world.
I don't know if I'm getting better. Or just used to the pain.
Every time I step back and see you I fall all over again for you...
It’s just I love where you catch me, in your heart…
I’m not scared of heights. I am afraid of falling. I’m not scared of the dark. I am scared of what is in it. I’m not scared of love. I am afraid of not being love back.
"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, and falling in love with you? Totally beyond my control"
If a clock breaks, it stops ticking, if a car breaks, it stops running so why is it that if a heart breaks, it doesn't stop loving
-l.o.v.e- is giving him the ability to break your heart but ((trusting)) him enough to know that he won't...
Love is sitting next to some one never speaking a word and then walking away feeling like it was the best conversation you have ever had
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give - which is everything."
"Love can be the greatest treasure… but once it’s shattered it becomes the greatest pain…
I'm afraid of loving you because the next step is losing you and my heart couldn't do that.
Kung mag ma-mahal dapat palagi (If you’re going to love at all, then you should all the time)
What she wants is a man to be faithful
A true heart somebody willing and able
To stay by her side through thick and thin
Tender touch every now and then
She's not hung up on fairy tells
Some dream at the bottom of a wishing well
Fancy cars or diamond rings
What she wants most are the little things.
Moving on is simple... its what you leave behind that's hard.
You turned around and looked right at me and said nothing, not even hi. It was as if the months we had spent together, the times I spent loving you just weren’t important, as if they never happened. We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking, but we never say a thing. Somehow the conversation brought up your name, and I was asked if I knew you. I stopped, looked away and thought about all the times we cried together, laughed together, and shared together. Then, with a faraway look and tears in my eyes I looked back and said, "Once...I thought I did."
Never apologize for feelings. If you do, you are apologizing for the truth
I know what it's like to want to die, how it hurts to smile, how you try to fit in but you can't, how you hurt yourself on the outside to try and kill something on the inside. - Girl Interrupted
It's the heart that's afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream that's afraid of waking that never takes the chance, it's the one who won't be taken who can not seem to give, it's the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
To love knowing you'll be hurt is like living knowing you are going to die. But to have never loved to protect yourself from being hurt is like killing yourself before you've had the chance to live.
The only people that can hurt you are the ones you love, because if it wasn't love, you wouldn't care.
"A wrestling match." he laughs. "Yes, you could describe life that way."
"So which side wins?" I ask.
"Which side wins?" He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth.
"Love wins. Love always wins." - Tuesday's with Morrie
You know when I realized I loved him? It was when I realized that anything that ever happened to me, anything at all-- good or bad, I wanted to tell him about it. He was the first person that I wanted to know about it, and I couldn't wait to tell him, and listen to him. I love learning new things about him every time I talk to him
It's a simple question... Do you need her like you needed me?
At least be there to wipe away my tears if you are going to make me cry
No smile is more beautiful as the one that struggles through the tears
I can guarantee we will have our rough times, and I can guarantee that one or both of us will want out of this. But I can also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine now- I'll regret it for the rest of my life. - Runaway Bride
You can make it without them if you did before they came.
I really shouldn't be surprised that we broke up. I mean, 90% of high school romances do eventually end. It's just that, for some reason, I thought we were different from everyone else. That what we had was special. That we could beat the odds and live happily ever after. But, then again, I guess that's what everyone thinks.
I guess the reason we could never work things out is because you were too proud to forgive me for something I was truly sorry for.
There are many things in life that may catch your eye,
But only a few will catch your heart.
Love is like playing the piano.
First you learn to play by the rules,
Then you must forget the rules and play from the heart.
Loving someone, is giving that someone the power to hurt you...
The overwhelming frustration
Of not being able to express
My love in words,
But the satisfaction that you know.
Love will not appear in command by one's heart,
But will reveal itself one way or another unexpectedly.
I dare not kiss so lovely a lady
I only have one heart to lose
To trust is to unshield your heart and place a dagger in the hand of another
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain.
To try is to risk failure,
But risk must be taken,
Because the greatest hazard in life
Is to risk nothing
Love is much like a wild rose,
Beautiful and calm,
But willing to draw blood in its defense
Love doesn't make the world go round,
Love is what makes the ride worth while.
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see
And knows what the mind cannot understand.
You never lose from loving,
You lose from holding back
The greatest weakness of most humans
Is their hesitancy to tell others,
How much they love them
While they're alive.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?
Love is everything it's cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical about it.
It really is worth fighting for,
Being brave for,
Risking everything for.
And the trouble is,
If you don't risk anything,
You risk even more.
The only feeling of real loss
Is when you love someone
More than you love your self.
"Love like you have never been hurt."
Is that even possible?
I mean you’re supposed to learn from mistakes
So how can you love like you have never been hurt?
Because to never get hurt again
You analyze why you got hurt
And attempt to learn from that.
So you will always love like you have been hurt.
To avoid getting hurt again. - This one is by meeh
Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle...rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be.
Who is this in which you don't see
Gazing skyward continuously?
The one staring back, into you.
With abiding sorrow for none to view?
Question asked, answer unfound
Forever entrapped, forever hell bound.
It is me whom you view
Now I ask, who are you?
Trust me...You do love him, sometimes we love people so much we become numb to it...because if we felt how much we really love them...It could kill us.
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. It's not the saying, but the never needing to say it that counts.
Letting go of the people that matter to you, only to become someone you’re not, will lead to emptiness you never sought.
Sometimes you just look at someone and think, should I love them for who they were, hate them for who they are now, or feel sorry for them because they had to change.
I've learned that a best friend is someone you can do anything with or nothing with and still have the best time.
Too many of us stay walled because we're afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear the other person doesn't care at all. - Eleanor Roosevelt
When you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't in us doesn't disturb us. - Hermann Hesse
Why does it only take a second to say hello but forever to say good-bye?
Real love means more than flowers, means more than beautiful words. Real love is keeping promises, Holding on when you don't want to, Being strong so that others may rest, And as time and change swirl around us, The love we share stands quietly, In the midst of our lives, Forever beautiful, Forever real.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When someone's in your life for a reason, it's usually to assist you through a difficulty and provide you with guidance and support. They may seem like a godsend, and they are. Then, without warning, something will bring the relationship to an end. What we must realize is that their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it's time to move on. Then people come into your life for a season. ‘Cause your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They may teach you something you have never done and they give you unbelievable joy. Believe it, it's real. But, only for a season. Lifetime relationships teach lifetime lessons: things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
I’m jealous of every girl that’s ever hugged you… cause for that one moment she held my entire world.
I don't know if I'm getting better. Or just used to the pain.
Every time I step back and see you I fall all over again for you...
It’s just I love where you catch me, in your heart…
I’m not scared of heights. I am afraid of falling. I’m not scared of the dark. I am scared of what is in it. I’m not scared of love. I am afraid of not being love back.
"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, and falling in love with you? Totally beyond my control"
If a clock breaks, it stops ticking, if a car breaks, it stops running so why is it that if a heart breaks, it doesn't stop loving
-l.o.v.e- is giving him the ability to break your heart but ((trusting)) him enough to know that he won't...
Love is sitting next to some one never speaking a word and then walking away feeling like it was the best conversation you have ever had
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give - which is everything."
"Love can be the greatest treasure… but once it’s shattered it becomes the greatest pain…
I'm afraid of loving you because the next step is losing you and my heart couldn't do that.
Kung mag ma-mahal dapat palagi (If you’re going to love at all, then you should all the time)
What she wants is a man to be faithful
A true heart somebody willing and able
To stay by her side through thick and thin
Tender touch every now and then
She's not hung up on fairy tells
Some dream at the bottom of a wishing well
Fancy cars or diamond rings
What she wants most are the little things.
Moving on is simple... its what you leave behind that's hard.
You turned around and looked right at me and said nothing, not even hi. It was as if the months we had spent together, the times I spent loving you just weren’t important, as if they never happened. We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking, but we never say a thing. Somehow the conversation brought up your name, and I was asked if I knew you. I stopped, looked away and thought about all the times we cried together, laughed together, and shared together. Then, with a faraway look and tears in my eyes I looked back and said, "Once...I thought I did."
Never apologize for feelings. If you do, you are apologizing for the truth
I know what it's like to want to die, how it hurts to smile, how you try to fit in but you can't, how you hurt yourself on the outside to try and kill something on the inside. - Girl Interrupted
It's the heart that's afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream that's afraid of waking that never takes the chance, it's the one who won't be taken who can not seem to give, it's the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
To love knowing you'll be hurt is like living knowing you are going to die. But to have never loved to protect yourself from being hurt is like killing yourself before you've had the chance to live.
The only people that can hurt you are the ones you love, because if it wasn't love, you wouldn't care.
"A wrestling match." he laughs. "Yes, you could describe life that way."
"So which side wins?" I ask.
"Which side wins?" He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth.
"Love wins. Love always wins." - Tuesday's with Morrie
You know when I realized I loved him? It was when I realized that anything that ever happened to me, anything at all-- good or bad, I wanted to tell him about it. He was the first person that I wanted to know about it, and I couldn't wait to tell him, and listen to him. I love learning new things about him every time I talk to him
It's a simple question... Do you need her like you needed me?
At least be there to wipe away my tears if you are going to make me cry
No smile is more beautiful as the one that struggles through the tears
I can guarantee we will have our rough times, and I can guarantee that one or both of us will want out of this. But I can also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine now- I'll regret it for the rest of my life. - Runaway Bride
You can make it without them if you did before they came.
I really shouldn't be surprised that we broke up. I mean, 90% of high school romances do eventually end. It's just that, for some reason, I thought we were different from everyone else. That what we had was special. That we could beat the odds and live happily ever after. But, then again, I guess that's what everyone thinks.
I guess the reason we could never work things out is because you were too proud to forgive me for something I was truly sorry for.