Proverbs - Quotations

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” Albert Einstein

“A good laugh is sunshine in a house.” William Thackery

“Life is something that everyone should try at least once.” Henry J. Tillman

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” Paul Valery

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” Carl Sandburg

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” Plato

“A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.” Bil Keane

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.” Pearl Bailey

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Berthold Auerbach

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.” Charles Caleb Colton 

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’. Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’” Erich Fromm 

“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.” David Grayson 

“Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?” Richard Bach

“Love until it hurts.” Mother Teresa

“The difficult I can do today. The impossible will take a little longer.” Billie Holiday

“Everybody needs someone to know who they really are.” J.T. LeRoy

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready we shall never begin.” Ivan Turgenev 

“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales ... we must fight in order to obtain it.”Alexander Dumas


“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” Stendhal 

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.” Al Batt

“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.” Agnes Repplier

“You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.” Jay Leno

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.” Comte Debussy-Rabutin 

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

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” Hellen Keller

“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.” Horace Mann   

“Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.” Dennis Diderot

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” Mother Teresa

 “Only when I grew to love you did I understand the relativity of time; then, I wished to embrace you forever, hoping that eternity would last just a few minutes more.” Anthony Constantino

“I've learned that goodbyes will always hurt, pictues never replace having been there, memories good or bad will always bring tears, and words can never replace feelings.” Goo Goo Dolls

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

“Although I can't wish you a happy birthday in person; I will spend the whole day with happy thoughts of you. “

“If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

“I hate the stars because I look at the same ones as you do, without you.”