Quotes and Text Messages

“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love”.  Mother Teresa

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human ‘brain’ with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human ‘heart’ with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is. Dalai Lama quotes

Ever wondered how “I LOVE YOU” is translated in other languages (other than English, of course)? Here are the translations:

Bulgarian - Obicham te
Burmese - chit pa de
Cambodian - Bon sro lanh oon
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“Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.” Anonymous

“Why is it that we don’t always recognize the moment love begins, but we always recognize the moment it ends?”

“A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he marries.” Anonymous

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. - Thomas Hughes

Friends hold both the power to excel your life, or destroy it. - Adam Murphy

MAHATMA GANDHI
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

CONFUCIUS
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and most often in the tongue of the liar.

A person is happy if he has a problem and enjoys solving it.

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” Conrad Hilton

Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him. John 6:27

Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings,
Melts them; to ruin his own fortune brings. Shakespeare
Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!
This is the state of man. To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope. To-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost. William Shakespeare

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“We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.”

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.
George Herbert

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland

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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
William Wordsworth

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold

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There is no absolute freedom. When your girlfriend says, “I love you”, that is her freedom. But then again, will you let her say, “I love you” to every man.

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Love is magic. The more we hide it, the more it shows; the more you suppress it, the more it grows.

It is always a pleasure to listen to persons bragging about their humility.

We forgive those who bore us but cannot forgive those whom we bore.