Thoughts 19JUL2013

YOU'D BETTER RUN

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion of a gazelle. When the sun comes out you'd better be running.
From Siemens Nixdorf Welcoming New Customer Card (got this many many many moons ago)

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The best things in life aren't things : Art Buchwald

Thoughts 18JUL2013

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier : Mother Teresa

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It is not lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages : Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive : Dalai Lama

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart : Marcus Aurelius

Thoughts 17JUL2013

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none : William Shakespeare

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that : Martin Luther King Jr

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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it : Sai Baba

Thoughts 16JUL2013

Love is blind : Geoffrey Chaucer

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Love is a hole in the heart : Ben Hecht

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Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat : Ben Hecht

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In our life there is a single colour, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the colour of love : Marc Chagall

Thoughts 15JUL2013

We are most alive when we're in love : John Updike

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We love because it's the only true adventure : Nikki Giovanni

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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret : Aphra Behn

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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law : Boethius

Thoughts 12JUL2013

Who loves, raves : Lord Byron

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are : John Dryden

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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value : Thornton Wilder

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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to : Tammy Wynette

Thoughts 11JUL2013

With our love, we could save the world : George Harrison

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We can only learn to love by loving : Iris Murdoch

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When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget : Helen Hunt Jackson

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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved : Mignon McLaughlin

Thoughts 10JUL2013

There is no limit to the power of loving : John Morton

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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery : Fulton J Sheen

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Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing : Torquato Tasso

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic : Alphonse de Lamartine

Thoughts 09JUL2013

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end : Benjamin Disraeli

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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out : Elizabeth Bowen

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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold : Zelda Fitzgerald

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He who loves, flies, runs and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back : Henri Matisse

Thoughts 08JUL2013

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love : Jean Racine

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

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work : Pearl Bailey

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred : Barbara de Angelis