Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Would you like to come in ?
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
What's meant to be will always find a way
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
It ain't over till it's over.
Faith can move mountains.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Work is love made manifest.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Where's the rest of me ?
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
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