Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Ashton Kutcher

Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me.

Ben Folds

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Janet Jackson

I need you like the blues needs the pain.

Dean Koontz

Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve -- even in pain -- the authentic relationship.

Eckhart Tolle

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

Eckhart Tolle

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

Andrew Mason

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Corita Kent

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Andrew Lang

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Tite Kubo

My innocence is a dying flower

Thomas Haynes Bayly

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.

Rumi

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

Robert Burns

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Jane Austen

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

Boris Pasternak

Failure to love is almost like murder.

Blaise Pascal

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Deborah Tannen

The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

Barbara Cartland

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

E. M. Forster

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Andrew Solomon

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

D. Elton Trueblood

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.