quotes/poems
just wanted to add some stuff that i find nice.
quotes
(beauty)
Candace Bergen:
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Helen Keller:
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
John Keats:
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Ruskin:
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
Oscar Hammerstein, II:
Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
Virginia Woolf:
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Willa Cather:
Oh, this is the joy of the rose: / That it blows, / And goes.
(life)
Abraham Lincoln:
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Albert Einstein:
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Amelia Burr:
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Bertrand Russell:
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
Buddha:
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
(love poems)
[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.
C.S. Lewis:
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
When you love someone,
all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
- Elizabeth Bowen -
Love is like a mountain,
hard to climb,
but once you get to the top
the view is beautiful.
- Daniel Monroe Tuttle -
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Thoreau -
You don't marry someone you can live with,
you marry the person who you cannot live without.
- Author Unknown -
quotes
(beauty)
Candace Bergen:
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Helen Keller:
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
John Keats:
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Ruskin:
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
Oscar Hammerstein, II:
Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
Virginia Woolf:
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Willa Cather:
Oh, this is the joy of the rose: / That it blows, / And goes.
(life)
Abraham Lincoln:
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Albert Einstein:
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Amelia Burr:
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Bertrand Russell:
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
Buddha:
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
(love poems)
[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.
C.S. Lewis:
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
When you love someone,
all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
- Elizabeth Bowen -
Love is like a mountain,
hard to climb,
but once you get to the top
the view is beautiful.
- Daniel Monroe Tuttle -
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Thoreau -
You don't marry someone you can live with,
you marry the person who you cannot live without.
- Author Unknown -