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Welcome to these John Ciardi Love Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Love Sayings. I hope you enjoy these Love Quotes by John Ciardi.
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
Related topics: Wisdom
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
Walking is good for solving problems -
it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.
- Pepper Giardino
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is trusting in the good.
Fear is putting your trust in the bad.
- Rhonda Byrne
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
There is a power for good in the universe
greater than you are and you can use it.
- Ernest Holmes
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
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