Quotes I Keep

Monday, April 17, 2006

语丝

  • 人当陶醉在过去生活的回忆之中,就等于活了两遍。
  • 生活中的一切,除了自我陶醉之外,都是模仿。
  • 最坏的人往往会提出最好的忠告。
  • 诚实而无知识是软弱和无力的; 但有知识而不诚实则是危险和可怕的。
  • 生活中一半的麻烦是由于你说 “是” 说得太快从及说 “不” 说得太慢。
  • 当你必须做出一个选择时,不做选择本身也是一种选择。


Love

It hurts to love someone and not to be loved in return, but what is more painful, is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion and the romance in a relationship and find out that you still care for that person.

A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.

When the door of happiness closes, another opens but oftentimes we look so long to the closed door that we don't see the one that has been opened for us.

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit with on the porch and swing with, never say a word and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.

There are things you'd love to hear that you would never hear from the person whom you would like to hear from, but don't be so deaf as not to hear it from the one who says it from his heart.

Never say goodbye if you still want to try... Never give up if you still feel you can go on... Never say you don't love a person anymore if you can't let go.

Love comes to those who still hope although they've been disappointed... to those who still believe although they've been betrayed... to those who still love although they've been hurt before.

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a life-time to forget someone.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Hope you find the one that makes you smile.

Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes royal kings of common clay.

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved.

You can give without loving but you can never love without giving.

Love is like five loaves and two fishes. It doesn't multiply until you give it away.

Love is friendship caught on fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weakness.

Life

some quotes i've found when i'm packing my stuffs...

To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by
the rules. Then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

As long as we have memories, yesterday remains, as long as we have hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as we have friendship, each day is never a waste.

There are some things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind, but keep in mind that letting go isn't the end of the world. It's the beginning of new life.

Sometimes, it is good to be "alone", but that doesn't make us lonely.

It is not a matter of being present "with" someone, it is a matter of being present "to" someone.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

The greatest regrets in our lives are the risks we did not take. If you think something will make you happy, go for it. Remember that you pass this way only once!

Heartbreaks will last as long as you want and cut deep as you allow them to go; the challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but to learn from them.

True love doesn't have a happy ending. That's because true love doesn't have an ending.

A heart truly in love never loses hope but always believes in the promise of love, no matter how long the time and how far the distance.

We are never given dreams without also being given the power to make them come true.

A casual friend will say, "Hi, hello!" A close friend adds, "How are you doing?" But a true friend further asks, "What can I do to help?"

Learning to be alone need not be lonely; it means you're ready to be with someone else.

To discover new oceans, you should lose sight of the shore.

Lots of people will want to ride with you in the limousine, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limousine breaks down.

Love has it's own time, season and own reasons. You can't ask it to stay, you can only embrace it as it comes and be glad that for a moment in your life it was yours!

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for everymoment of happiness that comes our way.

The recipe of friendship: 1 cup of sharing, 2 cups of caring, 1 cup of forgiveness and hugs of tenderness. Mix all these together to make friends forever.

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Happiness is like perfume, you can't pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Friends are like stars. You can't always see them, but you know they are there.

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

This is one that I am learning and I pray you will too: It is not the important things we do that make a significant life, rather it is the significant life that makes what we do important.

Friendship is a gift that can be opened everyday and it still hold lots of fun and happy surprises. Every moment that we share makes me realise all over again how very lucky I am to have you as a friend.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. - Notebook, 1898

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes - none knows when - and cannot explain itself. - Eve's Diary

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled. - Notebook, 1927

Optimist: day dreamer in his small clothes. - Notebook, 1927

Optimist: person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. - Notebook, 1927

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a playground. - Mark Twain, a Biography

Friendship happens in that special moment when someone reaches out to another and makes a special difference that no one else can make.