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Welcome to these Frivolous Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Frivolous and Love.
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley
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
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
And think not, you can direct the course of love;
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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