Friday, April 13, 2007

Quotes of the day

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.-Alan Watts

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. -Anne-Sophie Swetchine

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

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. -Bertrand Russell

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. -Bette Davis

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.-Blaise Pascal

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -Carl Jung

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -Charles M. Schulz

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. -David Viscott

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart-Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. -Dorothy Parker

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

Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. -Erica Jong,

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness. -Euripides

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 triumph of imagination over intelligence. -H. L. Mencken

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity. -Henry Bromel

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