Datangnya Ramadhan bagi orang Mukmin adalah laksana ‘kekasih’ yang sangat ia rindukan; dengan sukacita ia akan menyiapkan segala sesuatu.
Bulan Sya’ban sebentar lagi kita akhiri. Kini, bulan Ramadhan segera datang menghampiri. Terkait dengan ketiga bulan mulia ini, Rasulullah saw. secara khusus memanjatkan doa ke haribaan Allah SWT:
«اَللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِي رَجَبٍ وَ شَعْبَانَ وَ بَلِّغْنَا رَمَضَانَ وَ حَصِّلْ مَقَاصِدَنَا»
Duhai Allah, berkahilah kami pada bulan Rajab dan pada bulan Sya’ban ini; sampaikanlah diri kami pada bulan Ramadhan; dan tunaikanlah keinginan-keinginan kami (HR Ahmad).
Ibarat samudera, Ramadhan menyimpan sejuta mutiara kemuliaan, memendam perbendaharaan segala keagungan dan di dalamnya bersemayam aneka kebesaran. Ramadhan juga merupakan cakrawala curahan karunia Allah SWT karena semua aktivitas hamba yang beriman pada bulan ini dinilai sebagai ibadah. Kecil yang dilakukan tetapi besar pahalanya di sisi Allah. Ringan yang dikerjakan namun berat timbangan di hadapan Allah. Apalagi jika amal yang besar dan berat, tentu akan mampu melesatkan hamba ke derajat kemuliaan dan meraih kenikmatan surga-Nya.
Datangnya Ramadhan bagi orang Mukmin adalah laksana ‘kekasih’ yang sangat ia rindukan; dengan sukacita ia akan menyiapkan segala sesuatu yang dapat mengantarkan perjumpaan menjadi penuh makna, berkesan dalam dan senantiasa melahirkan harapan-harapan mulia.
Sebagai seorang Muslim yang cerdas, kita perlu strategi juga dalam beramal. Dengan tujuan agar mendapatkan nilai ibadah dan ilmu yang maksimal di bulan Ramadhan. Disini akan diungkap 10 langkah dalam menyambutnya.
1. Berdoalah agar Allah swt. memberikan kesempatan kepada kita untuk bertemu dengan bulan Ramadan dalam keadaan sehat wal afiat. Dengan keadaan sehat, kita bisa melaksanakan ibadah secara maksimal di bulan itu, baik puasa, shalat, tilawah, dan dzikir. Dari Anas bin Malik r.a. berkata, bahwa Rasulullah saw. apabila masuk bulan Rajab selalu berdoa, ”Allahuma bariklana fii rajab wa sya’ban, wa balighna ramadan.” Artinya, ya Allah, berkahilah kami pada bulan Rajab dan Sya’ban; dan sampaikan kami ke bulan Ramadan. (HR. Ahmad dan Tabrani)
Para salafush-shalih selalu memohon kepada Allah agar diberikan karunia bulan Ramadan; dan berdoa agar Allah menerima amal mereka. Bila telah masuk awal Ramadhan, mereka berdoa kepada Allah, ”Allahu akbar, allahuma ahillahu alaina bil amni wal iman was salamah wal islam wat taufik lima tuhibbuhu wa tardha.” Artinya, ya Allah, karuniakan kepada kami pada bulan ini keamanan, keimanan, keselamatan, dan keislaman; dan berikan kepada kami taufik agar mampu melakukan amalan yang engkau cintai dan ridhai.
2. Bersyukurlah dan puji Allah atas karunia Ramadan yang kembali diberikan kepada kita. Al-Imam Nawawi dalam kitab Adzkar-nya berkata, ”Dianjurkan bagi setiap orang yang mendapatkan kebaikan dan diangkat dari dirinya keburukan untuk bersujud kepada Allah sebagai tanda syukur; dan memuji Allah dengan pujian yang sesuai dengan keagungannya.” Dan di antara nikmat terbesar yang diberikan Allah kepada seorang hamba adalah ketika dia diberikan kemampuan untuk melakukan ibadah dan ketaatan. Maka, ketika Ramadan telah tiba dan kita dalam kondisi sehat wal afiat, kita harus bersyukur dengan memuji Allah sebagai bentuk syukur.
3. Bergembiralah dengan kedatangan bulan Ramadan. Rasulullah saw. selalu memberikan kabar gembira kepada para shahabat setiap kali datang bulan Ramadan, “Telah datang kepada kalian bulan Ramadan, bulan yang penuh berkah. Allah telah mewajibkan kepada kalian untuk berpuasa. Pada bulan itu Allah membuka pintu-pintu surga dan menutup pintu-pintu neraka.” (HR. Ahmad).
Salafush-shalih sangat memperhatikan bulan Ramadan. Mereka sangat gembira dengan kedatangannya. Tidak ada kegembiraan yang paling besar selain kedatangan bulan Ramadan karena bulan itu bulan penuh kebaikan dan turunnya rahmat.
4. Rancanglah agenda kegiatan untuk mendapatkan manfaat sebesar mungkin dari bulan Ramadan. Ramadhan sangat singkat. Karena itu, isi setiap detiknya dengan amalan yang berharga, yang bisa membersihkan diri, dan mendekatkan diri kepada Allah.
5. Bertekadlah mengisi waktu-waktu Ramadan dengan ketaatan. Barangsiapa jujur kepada Allah, maka Allah akan membantunya dalam melaksanakan agenda-agendanya dan memudahnya melaksanakan aktifitas-aktifitas kebaikan. “Tetapi jikalau mereka benar terhadap Allah, niscaya yang demikian itu lebih baik bagi mereka.” [Q.S. Muhamad (47): 21]
6. Pelajarilah hukum-hukum semua amalan ibadah di bulan Ramadan. Wajib bagi setiap mukmin beribadah dengan dilandasi ilmu. Kita wajib mengetahui ilmu dan hukum berpuasa sebelum Ramadan datang agar puasa kita benar dan diterima oleh Allah. “Tanyakanlah kepada orang-orang yang berilmu, jika kamu tiada mengetahui,” begitu kata Allah di Al-Qur’an surah Al-Anbiyaa’ ayat 7.
7. Sambut Ramadan dengan tekad meninggalkan dosa dan kebiasaan buruk. Bertaubatlah secara benar dari segala dosa dan kesalahan. Ramadan adalah bulan taubat. “Dan bertaubatlah kamu sekalian kepada Allah, hai orang-orang yang beriman, supaya kamu beruntung.” [Q.S. An-Nur (24): 31]
8. Siapkan jiwa dan ruhiyah kita dengan bacaan yang mendukung proses tadzkiyatun-nafs. Hadiri majelis ilmu yang membahas tentang keutamaan, hukum, dan hikmah puasa. Sehingga secara mental kita siap untuk melaksanakan ketaatan pada bulan Ramadan.
9. Siapkan diri untuk berdakwah di bulan Ramadhan. Bisa jadi diantara kita mendapat peran dalam dakwah misalkan :
- Buat catatan kecil untuk kultum tarawih serta ba’da sholat subuh dan zhuhur.
- Membagikan buku saku atau selebaran yang berisi nasihat dan keutamaan puasa.
10. Sambutlah Ramadan dengan membuka lembaran baru yang bersih. Kepada Allah, dengan taubatan nashuha. Kepada Rasulullah saw., dengan melanjutkan risalah dakwahnya dan menjalankan sunnah-sunnahnya. Kepada orang tua, istri-anak, dan karib kerabat, dengan mempererat hubungan silaturrahmi. Kepada masyarakat, dengan menjadi orang yang paling bermanfaat bagi mereka. Sebab, manusia yang paling baik adalah yang paling bermanfaat bagi orang lain.
Semoga kita bisa menjadikan Ramadhan kedepan sebagai yang terbaik selama hidup. InsyaAllah :)
Entahlah... mungkin bau-bau berkah ramadhan sudah mulai tercium, sehingga banyak teman yang begitu semangatnya sampai tepon interlokal... untuk minta maaf. Padahal di bulan-bulan sebelumnya... permohonan maaf adalah termasuk salah satu kalimat yang susah sekali diucapkan. Meskipun kesalahan tetap marak. Bahkan untuk meminta maaf kepada teman di sebelah saja.. kadang gengsi.
Di belahan lain... ada rekan yang dengan gagah berani menentang arus permintaan maaf ini. Ada yang bilang gak ada tuntunannya.... ada yang bilang memelintirkan hadist, ada juga yang bilang lebih dekat ke bid’ah dsb.
Saya bukan ahli hadist atau ahli agama. Saya cuma tanya hati nurani untuk masalah ini.... Dan yang saya temukan adalah... rekan-rekan yang mengucapkan permintaan maaf kok lebih terasa mengalirkan energi positif yang menyejukkan. Sementara rekan-rekan yang menentang hal ini, kebanyakan menyampaikan pendapatnya dalam hawa panas... bukan dengan hikmah..... sayang sekali.
Bagi saya pribadi sih oke-oke aja...
Permintaan maaf (dan memaafkan) bukan hal yang dilarang. Dan bisa dilakukan kapan saja. Jika saat menjelang ramadhan kata itu banyak kita terima... bagi saya suatu berkah... karena saya ternyata masih diingat oleh teman-teman saya...
Saya percaya... tujuan mereka meminta maaf... adalah untuk membersihkan hati... agar ibadah di bulan ramadhan menjadi lebih khusu’.
Itu saja...
Selamat menyambut bulan Ramadhan....
Semoga Ramadhan Tahun ini lebih mendekatkan kita kepada Allah swt. Amin.
MAAFKAN SAYA, kalo sepanjang pergaulan saya di dunia ini ada kata-kata atau candaan yang menyinggung dan menyakiti hati rekan-rekan.
Wassalam,
yang terlahir sempurna
jangan kau sesali
segala yang telah terjadi
kita pasti pernah
dapatkan cobaan yang berat
seakan hidup ini
tak ada artinya lagi
reff1:
syukuri apa yang ada
hidup adalah anugerah
tetap jalani hidup ini
melakukan yang terbaik
tak ada manusia
yang terlahir sempurna
jangan kau sesali
segala yang telah terjadi
repeat reff1
reff2:
Tuhan pasti kan menunjukkan
kebesaran dan kuasanya
bagi hambanya yang sabar
dan tak kenal putus asa
by: D'Masiv
for me to say forever
I know that I sometimes
just don't know how to tell her
I want to hold and kiss her
give her my love, make her believe
she doesn't know
she doesn't know
you're all I need beside me girl
you're all I need to turn my world
you're all I want inside my heart
you're all I need when we're apart
you're all that I need - yeah
I know that she's always
there when I need her loving
I know that I never
told her how much I love her
I see her face before me
I look in her eyes
just wondering why
she doesn't know
she doesn't know
she doesn't know
you're all I need beside me girl
you're all I need to turn my world
you're all I want inside my heart
you're all I need when we're apart
say, say that you'll be there
whenever I reach out to feel your hand in mine
stay, stay within my heart
whenever I'm alone, I know that you are there
oooooh
(2 times)
you're all I need beside me girl
you're all I need to turn my world
you're all I want inside my heart
you're all I need when we're apart
all that I need is for you to believe
all that I need is YOU
biarkan malam ini hanya untuk kita
ceritakan manusia yang bermimpi memetikmu
oh bintang aku ingin katakan padanya
betapa rindu hati untuk dapat melihat senyumnya
dengarkanlah kau bintang lagu cintaku untuknya
biarkan memberi kesan indah pada dunia
biarkan semua duka pergi darinya
oh bintang biarkan malam terus berjalan
izinnkanlah ku pinjam pantulan indah dari sinarmu
untuk jadi hiasan dalam lelap tidurnya
biarkan memberi kesan indah pada dunia
Of what it means to know just who I am
I think I've finally found a better place to start
But no one ever seems to understand
I need to try to get to where you are
Could it be, your not that far
You're the voice I hear inside my head, the reason that I'm singing
I need to find you
I gotta find you
You're the missing piece I need, the song inside of me
I need to find you
I gotta find you
You're the remedy I'm searching hard to find
To fix the puzzle that I see inside
Painting all my dreams the color of your smile
When I find you I'll be alright
I need to try to get to where you are
Could it be, your not that far
You're the voice I hear inside my head, the reason that I'm singing
I need to find you
I gotta find you
You're the missing piece I need, the song inside of me
I need to find you
I gotta find you
Been feeling lost, can't find the words to say
Spending all my time stuck in yesterday
Where you are is where I want to be
Oh next to you... and you next to me
Oh I need to find you...
| RANK | NAME | CITIZENSHIP | AGE | NET WORTH ($BIL) | RESIDENCE |
| 1 | William Gates III | United States | 53 | 40.0 | United States |
| 2 | Warren Buffett | United States | 78 | 37.0 | United States |
| 3 | Carlos Slim Helu & family | Mexico | 69 | 35.0 | Mexico |
| 4 | Lawrence Ellison | United States | 64 | 22.5 | United States |
| 5 | Ingvar Kamprad & family | Sweden | 83 | 22.0 | Switzerland |
| 6 | Karl Albrecht | Germany | 89 | 21.5 | Germany |
| 7 | Mukesh Ambani | India | 51 | 19.5 | India |
| 8 | Lakshmi Mittal | India | 58 | 19.3 | United Kingdom |
| 9 | Theo Albrecht | Germany | 87 | 18.8 | Germany |
| 10 | Amancio Ortega | Spain | 73 | 18.3 | Spain |
1. William Gates III
Net Worth : $40.0 bil
Fortune : self made
Source : Microsoft
Age : 53
Country Of Citizenship : United States
Residence : Medina, Washington
Industry : Software
Education : Harvard University, Drop Out,
Marital Status : married, 3 children
Software visionary regains title as the world’s richest man despite losing $18 billion in the past 12 months. Stepped down from day-to-day duties at Microsoft last summer to devote his talents and riches to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Organization’s assets were $30 billion in January; annual letter lauds endowment manager Michael Larson for limiting last year’s losses to 20%. Gates decided to increase donations in 2009 to $3.8 billion, up 15% from 2008. Dedicated to fighting hunger in developing countries, improving education in America’s high schools and developing vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. Appointed Microsoft Office veteran Jeffrey Raikes chief exec of Gates Foundation in September. Gates remains Microsoft chairman. Sells shares each quarter, redeploys proceeds via investment vehicle Cascade; more than half of fortune invested outside Microsoft. Stock down 45% in past 12 months. “Creative capitalist” wants companies to match profitmaking with doing good.
2. Warren Buffett
Net Worth : $37.0 bil
Fortune : self made
Source : Berkshire Hathaway
Age : 78
Country Of Citizenship : United States
Residence : Omaha, Nebraska
Industry : Investments
Education : University of Nebraska Lincoln, Bachelor of Arts / Science, Columbia University, Master of Science
Marital Status : widowed, remarried, 3 children
Last year America’s most beloved investor was the world’s richest man. This year he has to settle for second place after losing $25 billion in 12 months. Shares of Berkshire Hathaway down 45% since last March. Injected billions of dollars into Goldman Sachs, GE in exchange for preferred stock last fall; propped up insurance firm Swiss Re in February with $2.6 billion infusion. Admits he made some “dumb” investment mistakes in 2008. Upbeat about America’s future: “Our economic system has worked extraordinarily well over time. It has unleashed human potential as no other system has, and it will continue to do so.” Scoffs at Wall Street’s over-reliance on “history-based” models: “If merely looking up past financial data would tell you what the future holds, the Forbes 400 would consist of librarians.” Son of Nebraska politician delivered newspapers as a boy. Filed first tax return at age 13, claiming $35 deduction for bicycle. Studied under value investing guru Benjamin Graham at Columbia. Took over textile firm Berkshire Hathaway 1965. Today holding company invested in insurance (Geico, General Re), jewelry (Borsheim’s), utilities (MidAmerican Energy), food (Dairy Queen, See’s Candies). Also has noncontrolling stakes in Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo.
3. Carlos Slim Helu & family
Net Worth :$35.0 bil
Fortune : self made
Source : telecom
Age : 69
Country Of Citizenship : Mexico
Residence : Mexico City
Industry : Telecommunications
Education : NA,
Marital Status : widowed, 6 children
Economic downturn and plunging peso shaved $25 billion from the fortune of Latin America’s richest man. Global recession testing his ability to live up to the principles he sets for his employees: “Maintain austerity in times of fat cows.” Son of a Lebanese immigrant bought fixed line operator Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex) in 1990; now controls 90% of Mexico’s telephone landlines. Would be a billionaire based on his dividends alone. Biggest holding: $16 billion stake in America Movil, Latin America’s largest mobile phone company with 173 million customers. America Movil and Telmex reportedly planning to jointly invest $4 billion to bolster telecom infrastructure in Latin America. Buying up cheap media, energy and retail assets. Last year took stakes in New York Times Co., former billionaire Anthony O’Reilly’s Independent News & Media and Bronco Drilling; also increased position in Saks. Baseball statistics aficionado, art collector.
4. Lawrence Ellison
Net Worth : $22.5 bil
Fortune : self made
Source : Oracle
Age : 64
Country Of Citizenship : United States
Residence : Redwood City, California
Industry : Software
Education : University of Illinois, Drop Out,
Marital Status : married, 2 children
Database titan continues to engulf the competition; Oracle has racked up 49 acquisitions in the past 4 years. Bought BEA Systems for $8.5 billion last year. Still sitting on $7 billion in cash. Revenues up 11% to $10.9 billion in the six months ended November 30; profits also up 11% to $2.4 billion. Stock down 25% in past 12 months. Invested $125 million in Web software outfit Netsuite; took public in 2007, stock has fallen 80% since. His shares still worth $300 million. Chicago native studied physics at U. of Chicago, didn’t graduate. Started Oracle in 1977. Public 1986, a day before Microsoft. Owns 453-foot Rising Sun; built a smaller leisure boat because superyacht is hard to park. Squabbling in court with Swiss boating billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli over terms of next America’s Cup. Recently unveiled hulking 90-foot trimaran he intends to use to win it.
5. Ingvar Kamprad & family
Net Worth : $22.0 bil
Fortune : self made
Source : Ikea
Age : 83
Country Of Citizenship : Sweden
Residence : Lausanne
Industry : Retail
Education : NA,
Marital Status : married, 4 children
Peddled matches, fish, pens, Christmas cards and other items by bicycle as a teenager. Started selling furniture in 1947. Opened first Ikea store 50 years ago; stores’s name is a combination of initials of his first and last name, his family farm and the nearest village. Retired in 1986; company’s “senior adviser” still reportedly works tirelessly on his brand. Discount retailer now sells 9,500 items in 36 countries; prints catalog in 27 languages. Revenues up 7% to $27.4 billion in fiscal year 2008. Opened tenth store in China this February; planning to open first in Dominican Republic later this year. Three sons all work at the company. Thrifty entrepreneur flies economy class, frequents cheap restaurants and furnishes his home mostly with Ikea products.
6. Karl Albrecht
Net Worth : $21.5 bil
Fortune : self made
Source : Aldi
Age : 89
Country Of Citizenship : Germany
Residence : Mulheim an der Ruhr
Industry : Retail
Education : NA,
Marital Status:married, 2 children Germany’s richest person owns discount supermarket giant Aldi Sud. Retailer faring well amid economic downturn; analysts expect its 2008 sales to be up 9.4% to $33.7 billion. Sales in the U.S. up estimated 20% last year to $7 billion. Plans to open 75 U.S. stores in 2009, including first in New York City. With younger brother, Theo, transformed their mother’s corner grocery store into Aldi after World War II. Brothers split ownership in 1961; Karl took the stores in southern Germany, plus the rights to the brand in the U.K., Australia and the U.S. Theo got northern Germany and the rest of Europe. Retired from daily operations. Fiercely private: little known about him other than that he apparently raises orchids and plays golf.
7. Mukesh Ambani
Net Worth : $19.5 bil
Fortune : inherited and growing
Source : petrochemicals
Age : 51
Country Of Citizenship : India
Residence : Mumbai
Industry : Manufacturing
Education : University of Bombay, Bachelor of Arts / Science, Stanford University, Drop Out
Marital Status : married, 3 children
Oversees Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company by market cap despite stock falling 40% in past year. Merging his Reliance Petroleum with flagship Reliance Industries. As part of deal, will exercise right to buy back Chevron’s 5% stake in Reliance Petroleum at $1.20 per share—the same price at which he sold it 3 years ago. Today the stock trades for $1.80 a share. Increased stake in Reliance Industries in October; paid $3.4 billion to convert 120 million preferential warrants into shares. Reliance Petroleum refinery on India’s western coast began operating in December despite falling global demand and declining margins. Late father Dhirubhai founded Reliance and built it into a massive conglomerate. After he died Mukesh and his brother, Anil, ran the family business together for a brief time. But siblings feuded over control; mother eventually brokered split of assets. Brothers may be looking to bury hatchet; played joint hosts at mother’s recent 75th-birthday bash. Has yet to move into his 27-story home that he’s building at a reported cost of $1 billion. Ardent fan of Bollywood films. Wife, Nita, oversees school named after his father.
8. Lakshmi Mittal
Net Worth : $19.3 bil
Fortune : inherited and growing
Source : steel
Age : 58
Country Of Citizenship : India
Residence : London
Industry : Steel
Education : St Xavier’s College Calcutta, Bachelor of Arts / Science,
Marital Status : married, 2 children
Indian immigrant heads world’s largest steel company; ArcelorMittal was formed via hostile takeover 3 years ago. Stock in company makes up bulk of his fortune; shares at a 4-year low with steel prices down 75% since last summer. Company forced to pay heavy fines after a French antitrust investigation found 10 companies guilty of price-fixing in European steel markets. Arcelor posted $2.6 billion loss in most recent quarter; announced plans to slow acquisitions, cut capital expenditures, pay down debt. Started in family steel business in the 1970s, branched out on his own in 1994. Initially bought up steel mills on the cheap in Eastern Europe. Company bought 19.9% stake in Australia’s Macarthur Coal last year. Also owns pieces of Mumbai’s Indiabulls Group, London’s RAB Capital; owns stake in, sits on board of Goldman Sachs. Holds substantial cash; owns 12-bedroom mansion in London’s posh Kensington neighborhood.
9. Theo Albrecht
Net Worth : $18.8 bil
Fortune : self made
Source : Aldi, Trader Joe’s
Age : 87
Country Of Citizenship : Germany
Residence : Foehr
Industry : Retail
Education : NA,
Marital Status : married, 2 children
Runs discount supermarket group Aldi Nord; firm holding up amid economic downturn. Sales expected to hit $31 billion in 2008. After World War II he and older brother Karl transformed their mother’s corner grocery into Aldi. Brothers split ownership in 1961; Karl took the stores in southern Germany, plus the rights to the brand in the U.K., Australia and the U.S. Theo got the northern Germany stores and the rest of Europe. Unable to operate Aldi stores in U.S., Theo developed discount food store Trader Joe’s; now has more than 320 U.S. stores. Also owns stake in Supervalu. Became a recluse after being kidnapped for 17 days in 1971; said to collect old typewriters; loves golf.
10. Amancio Ortega
Net Worth : $18.3 bil
Fortune : self made
Source : Zara
Age : 73
Country Of Citizenship : Spain
Residence : La Coruna
Industry : Retail
Education : NA,
Marital Status : married, 3 children
Railway worker’s son started as a gofer in a shirt store. With then-wife Rosalia Mera, also now a billionaire, started making dressing gowns and lingerie in their living room. Business became one of world’s most successful apparel manufacturers. Today Inditex has more than 4,000 stores in 71 countries. Sales: $12.3 billion. Ortega is chairman. Company exported its cheap chic Zara stores to 4 new markets last year: Ukraine, South Korea, Montenegro and Honduras. Stock up 1% in past 12 months, but fortune down because of weak euro. Also has personal investments in gas, tourism, banks and real estate. Owns properties in Madrid, Paris, London, Lisbon, plus a luxury hotel and apartment complex in Miami, a horse-jumping circuit, and an interest in a soccer league. Shuns neckties and fanfare. Daughter Marta works for Inditex; recent speculation suggests she is being groomed to eventually replace her father.
Sumber : www.forbes.com
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
Dorothy Gilman
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shakur
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Kennedy
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
David Brinkley
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan
Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Kevin Spacey
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher
Groucho Marx
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma Bombeck
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx
A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
Bob Hope
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Steven Wright
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Mark Twain
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho Marx
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
Tracey Ullman
Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
Marilyn vos Savant
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
Fred Allen
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
P. J. O'Rourke
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
Jay Leno
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
George Burns
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
George Carlin
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Josh Billings
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O'Rourke
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
For your information, I would like to ask a question.
Samuel Goldwyn
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
Naguib Mahfouz
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
Marilyn vos Savant
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
He would make a lovely corpse.
Charles Dickens
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
W. C. Fields
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Stephen King
I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.
Steven Wright
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright
I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.
Paul Lynde
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
Joe E. Lewis
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
Paula Poundstone
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Stephen Fry
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
Mitch Hedberg
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen
I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.
Rodney Dangerfield
I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert Benchley
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven Wright
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Joan Rivers
I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen
I like marriage. The idea.
Toni Morrison
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
Rodney Dangerfield
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt Disney
I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
Bob Hope
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. Fields
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Will Rogers
I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra
I rant, therefore I am.
Dennis Miller
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.
Paul Lynde
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
George Burns
I think serial monogamy says it all.
Tracey Ullman
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
David Lee Roth
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx
I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
Emo Philips
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Emo Philips
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Woody Allen
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
Mitch Hedberg
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
Howard Nemerov
I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
Mercedes McCambridge
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
James Brown
I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
Dennis Miller
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Woody Allen
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Laurence J. Peter
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Yogi Berra
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
George Carlin
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner
It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.
Jay London
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
Dave Barry
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Marlene Dietrich
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips
Frank Howard Clark
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Henri B. Stendhal
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
Do all things with love.
Og Mandino
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym
I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
Javan
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
George Eliot
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
Boethius
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan
Love conquers all.
Virgil
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
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 an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
Love is love's reward.
John Dryden
Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
Boethius
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Tammy Wynette
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Wayne Dyer
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
Werner Erhard
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
