Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
M.K. Gandhi

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Passion is the genesis of genius.
Anthony Robbins

The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality
Leonardo da Vinci

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire.

Live with passion!
Tony Robbins

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde quotes

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
Saul Bellow

Painting not the thing, but its effect.
Stéphane Mallarmé

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell

Art is lies that tell the truth.
Pablo Picasso

Nothing is confused except the mind.
Rene Magritte

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James Whistler

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

Lack of clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor.-
Brian Tracy

What is life, but a series of inspired follies?
George Bernard Shaw

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish
Aristotle

The proper school to learn art is not life but art
Oscar Wilde

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Kahlil Gibran

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
- Shakespeare

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert Heinlein

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.
- Proverb

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
- D.H.Lawrence

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov

Love is always bestowed as a gift : freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
- Leo Buscaglia

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.
- Author Unknown

True love never lives happily ever after – true love has no ending.
- K. Knight

Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.
- Matt Zotti

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.
- Charles Stanley

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
- Leo J. Burke

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.
- Barbara Christine Seifert

A new baby is like the beginning of all things : wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
- Eda J. Le Shan

The hardest job facing kids today is to learn good manners without seeing any.

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
- Author Unknown

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone

Children reinvent your world for you.

A baby is a gift unwrapped that should only be given with LOVE.

You and your family are in our prayers today.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
- William Hazlitt

We ask that God send his blessings to you during this difficult time.

A human life is a story told by God.
- Hans Christian Andersen

May God’s grace and strength be with you.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
- John Ruskin.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
-John Taylor

Words alone can not express enough our heartfelt sorrow at your loss.

May the peace of God be with you during your time of sorrow.

Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow,
May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.

When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.

May it help to comfort you that we deeply share your sorrow,
and are thinking of you and praying for you.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
- Kenji Miyazawa

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
That are no more, and shall no more return.
Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;
I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still burn.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
-Emily Dickinson

May your memories bring you comfort, and may they ease your suffering as you miss your loved one.

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
- Sri Chinmoy

The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy
- Parke Godwin

He kept at true good humour’s mark
The social flow of pleasure’s tide:
He never made a brow look dark,
Nor caused a tear, but when he died.
- Thomas Love Peacock

Sympathy Verses
Life brings tears,
smiles and memories.
The tears dry,
the smile fades,
but the memories live on forever.

Gone from our sight,
but never our memories.
Gone from our touch,
but never our hearts.

Into each life some rain must fall but sunshine does appear.
It brings with it a rainbow and a message that is clear.
Please know that you are not alone that we all hold you dear
Let faith & hope into your heart and keep your memories near.

I’m not 40, i’m only eighteen with 22 years of experience.

Forty isn’t old, if you’re a tree.

Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
-Rowland

We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
- J Renard

Men at forty learn to close softly the doors to rooms they will not be coming back to.
- Donald Justice

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- Hugo

The best years of a woman’s life – the ten years between 39 and 40.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward

Once you hit forty you should start adding letters like “i’m 39A this year”.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- G B Shaw

The “I just woke up” face of your 30′s is the “all day long” face of your 40′s.
- L Reid

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.
- R Russo

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
H W Longfellow

Dalai Lama has given a meaning of life. Life is to be happy and useful.

Also Bertrand Russell has very rightly said “The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- Buddha

Where there is love there is life.
- M K Gandhi

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.

Live your life and forget your age.

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell

Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways:
1. by doing a deed;
2. by experiencing a value and
3. by suffering.

Human life is purely a matter of deciding what’s important to you.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Sayings and Quote Of The Day

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Action is the antidote to despair.

Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.
- Tom Krause

Action is eloquence.
- William Shakespeare

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
- Calvin Coolidge

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the real man of action.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
– Napoleon Hill

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
- Alexander Pope

The first step binds one to the second.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
- Henry Ford

If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher

Action conquers fear.
- Peter Nivio

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
- Tehyi Hsieh

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.
- Edward Abbey

If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help.

Love is not consolation. It is light.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it’s that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
- Navjot Singh Sidhu

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
- Aaron Rose

Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls.

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

Love without attachment is light.
- N O Brown

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
- Anne Sullivan Macy

Light is the task where many share the toil.
- Homer

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
- Henry David Thoreau

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
- Stefan Zweig

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
- Peace Pilgrim

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.
- Peter Thomson

We burn daylight.
- William Shakespeare

Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.
- Caroline Schoeder

Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
- Douglas Adams

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
- Mark Twain

Fat people are harder to kidnap.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
- Milne

Training isn’t a matter of life and death, It is more than that.

Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
- Cher

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
- R M Hutchins

Runners make the best girlfriends, catch me if you can.

Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
- George Sheehan

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
- Phyllis Diller

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck.

I keep Trying to lose weight , but it keeps finding me.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
- Hugh Blair

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
- Henry Ford

Does Running late count as exercise?

I love being surrounded by dumb bells .

I Exercise – run my mouth, push my luck and jump to conclusions .

I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
- A Y Thornton

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
- Mark Twain

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
- Benjamin Jowett

Logic is like the sword, those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
- Samuel Butler

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
- Charles K. Kettering

Better to be without logic than without feeling.
- Charlotte Bronte

Logic : The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
- Ambrose Bierce

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
- David Borenstein

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
- Aldous Huxley

Logic is one thing and Common Sense another.
- Elbert Hubbard

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Logic is an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
- Samuel Butler

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
- L D Brandeis

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
- A N Wilson

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and long honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Self confidence is the key to the universe.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
- David Brinkley

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
- Sally Field

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
- P T Mcintyre

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.
- Henry Ford

Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It’s so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success comes in cans, not cant’s.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
P T Mcintyre

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.
- Oscar Wilde

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see – and hits it.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- Seneca

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Genius is perseverance in disguise.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.
- Mark Twain

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie.
P K Thomajan

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

Inspiration and genius are one and the same.

I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
- J M Whistler

Genius sees the answer before the question.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

There is no life without water.

We will never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Water which is too pure has no fish.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
- Joseph Conrad

Filthy water cannot be washed.
- Proverb

Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
P H Johnson

The great sea makes one a great sceptic.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

It is wise to bring some water, when one goes out to look for water.

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don’t run deep, there’s usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
- William Wordsworth

Even a bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.

There are two types of fisherman – those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

All fishermen are liars except you and me and to tell you the truth, I’m not so sure about you.

Fishing is the sport of drowning worms.

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
- Irish Blessing

There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
- S Wright

Fishing was good, it was the catching that was bad.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed.

Work is for those who do not fly fish.

Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.

The awkward fisherman does nothing but disturb the water.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.
- P Schullery

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Everything in life is luck.
- D. Trump

Luck never made a man wise.

Luck never gives; it only lends.
- Swedish Proverb

I’m a great believer of luck, and I have found that the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Go and wake up your luck.

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky!

Maybe I’m lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.
- Ashleigh

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don’t depend on it.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
- W Mizner

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.
- Patrick Murray

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Humor is a universal language.
- Joel Goodman

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.
- Roman Gary

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
- Christopher Morley

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.
- Mark Twain

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

Humor is reason gone mad.
- Groucho Marx

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
W. Rogers

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
- M. Eastman

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

The house is on fire so let us warm ourselves.
- Italian Proverb

Fire takes no holiday.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Fire is the most tolerable third party.

A neglected spark makes a mighty fire.

Fire is never a gentle master.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.

Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.

Don’t let your dreams go up in smoke – practice fire safety.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

There is no god higher than truth.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
- Aldous Huxley

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

You can never find yourself until you face the truth.

Truth will only make you unpopular.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Truth is rarely written in ink; it lives in nature.

Truth breeds hatred.

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

Truth is within ourselves.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Truth is a great flirt.

Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
- W. Churchill

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

From native simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann

Anything simple always interests me.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.