Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert CamusIt is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore RooseveltNo one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry KissingerIf you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiGo up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich NietzscheSometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine HepburnBelievers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
Billy GrahamSociety does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl MarxI have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn MonroeIt is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis BaconI am who I am today because of my mother.
Kevin HartThe beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George EliotIf you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles BukowskiMysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph AddisonFriendship is essentially a partnership.
AristotleI’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.
Maya AngelouA friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLove is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich NietzscheIn this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard ShawI have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
Kevin GatesLovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.
Christopher HitchensOne should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar WildeMy greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
Maya AngelouHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis BaconNo evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George EliotA brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
Alexander PopeI’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
Lady GagaMine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘
Dolly PartonWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John MuirAll religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
Dalai LamaThe only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.
Joyce MeyerTrust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen CoveyI desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham LincolnI wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.
Kanye WestReading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques RousseauSometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.
Adam SandlerAvoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen KellerI don’t eat with beautiful women alone.
Billy GrahamWhen you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
Brene BrownMy friends, there are no friends.
Coco ChanelVanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George EliotNonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean-Jacques RousseauSocial media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
Brene BrownA conqueror is always a lover of peace.
Carl von ClausewitzAs soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William ShakespeareI didn’t have a father figure in the house.
The WeekndTreat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.
John KennedyFamiliarity breeds contempt – and children.
Mark TwainBecause of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.
Eckhart TolleIf we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya AngelouA life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie RobinsonIf you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.
Taylor SwiftI hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily DickinsonAs iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King SolomonYou are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.
Ronald ReaganIn terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
Colin PowellOften we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert HubbardLive-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.
Brene BrownI love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.
Dolly Parton