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Saturday, November 9, 2013

Quotes of happiness (51-75)

51. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand

52. “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― L.M. Montgomery


53.  “HAPPINESS [is] ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED”
― Jon Krakauer


54.  “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
― Bette Midler


55.  “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Brontë


56.  “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
― J.M. Barrie


57.  “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
― Mark Twain


58.  “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami


59.  “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown


60.  “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle


61.  “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire


62.  “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche


63.  “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
― Robert Frost


64.  “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky


65.  “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen


66.  “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
― Aristotle


67.  “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams


68.  “With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.”

― Max Ehrmann


69.  “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli


70.  “I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself.”

― Sri Chinmoy


71. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
― Marcus Aurelius


72.  “You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert


73.  “Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”
― Mark Twain


74.  “Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer


75.  “Memory is the happiness of being alone.”
― Lois Lowry,

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Quotes of Book ( 51-100)

51.  “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green
52.  “A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann
53.  “From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.”
― Groucho Marx
54.  “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett
55.  “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace
56.  “If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
― Jerry Seinfeld
57.  “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman
58.  “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
59.  “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen
60.  “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley
61.  “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis
62.  “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero
63. “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
― Christopher Paolini
64.  “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
65.  “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King
66.  “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler
67.  “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain
68.  “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott
69.  “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz
70.  “So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl
71.  “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
72.  “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy
73.  “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare
74.  “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Francis Bacon
75.  “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin
76.  “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron
77.  “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green
78.  “I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
― Steven Wright
79.  “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau
80.  “I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.”
― James Patterson
81.  “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
― Jessamyn West
82.  “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound
83.  “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
― Maya Angelou
84.  “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett
85.  “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King
86.  “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett
87.  “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
88.  “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle
89.  “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume
90.  “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton
91.  “My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X
92.  “Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
― Dr. Seuss
93.  “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis
94.  “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown
95. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
96.  “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
― John Green
97.  “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley
98.  “Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman
99.  “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”

― Stephen Fry
100. “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell

Short Quotes of love ( 51-100)

51. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ― Robert Frost

52. “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

53. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
― Albert Einstein

54. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell

55. “It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster,

56. “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
― Tom Robbins

57. “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
― Victor Hugo

58. “You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera 

59. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green


60.  “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky

61. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho

62. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

63. “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde

64.  He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë


65.  “True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
― Nicholas Sparks


66. “Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
― Cassandra Clare,
67. “When love is not madness it is not love.”
― Pedro Calderón de la Barca
68. “One love, one heart, one destiny.”
― Bob Marley
69.“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
― Nicholas Sparks



70. “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

71. “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
― Rick Riordan

72. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie

73. “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
 



74. “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?” ― Jodi Picoult

75. “And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”
― Suzanne Collins

76. “Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.”
― J.R. Ward

77. “Look after my heart - I've left it with you.”
― Stephenie Meyer

78. “I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”
― Jeaniene Frost

79. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
― C.S. Lewis

80. “Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde
 



81. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach”

― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
82. “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac
83. “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
84.  “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
85. “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
― Candace Bushnell
86.  “One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”
― Karen Marie Moning
87.  “If loving someone is putting them in a straitjacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people.”
― Jarod Kintz

88.  “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda

89.  “Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
― A.A. Milne

90.  “I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
― Nicholas Sparks

91.  “Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
― Melissa Marr

92.  “I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
― C.S. Lewis

93.  “One word, Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”

― Sophocles


94. “The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
― Tom Robbins

95. “True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
Gordon B


96.  “The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
― Scott Westerfeld

97. “love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”
― Nicholas Sparks


98.  “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton

99.  “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
― John Henry Newman


100.“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal