Brittanymcfeely's quotes

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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: happiness, love
326 people liked it

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: life, love
213 people liked it

"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
221 people liked it

"Living is Easy with Your Eyes Closed."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, blindness, ignorance, life
213 people liked it

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

tags: irony, life, loneliness
167 people liked it

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
— Simon and Garfunkel

tags: happiness, life
208 people liked it

"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."
— Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)

tags: life
59 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,133 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,686 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,170 people liked it

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

tags: love
1,508 people liked it

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
— C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair)

tags: hell, love, safe
412 people liked it

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: love
256 people liked it

"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: alone, love
205 people liked it

"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship, love
177 people liked it

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: death, life, truth
88 people liked it

"The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

tags: friendship
23 people liked it

"You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

24 people liked it

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. "
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

tags: courage
43 people liked it

"My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others."
— C.S. Lewis

21 people liked it

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: failure
18 people liked it

"Isn't it funny how day by they nothing changes but when you look back everything is different...."
— C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian)

tags: changes
21 people liked it

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: fear, greif
47 people liked it

"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself"
— C.S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain)

5 people liked it

"I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: adore, free, obey
8 people liked it

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: blessings
24 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,329 people liked it

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
4,086 people liked it

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: adventure, love
1,611 people liked it

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
2,346 people liked it

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry
2,390 people liked it

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: love
1,706 people liked it

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: love
965 people liked it

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
— Joan Crawford

tags: love
874 people liked it

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."
— Max Lucado

tags: inspirational, love
670 people liked it

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
— Tom Robbins

tags: love, sex
515 people liked it

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
— Mother Teresa

tags: love
195 people liked it

"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."
— Louis de Bernières (Captain Corelli's Mandolin)

tags: love
259 people liked it

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
— Mother Teresa

tags: echoes, endless, kind-words, kindness, love, words
255 people liked it

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything"
— Katharine Hepburn (Me : Stories of My Life)

tags: love
219 people liked it

"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: forget, memory
68 people liked it

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
— Edgar Allan Poe

21 people liked it

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
— Mother Teresa

tags: action, beautiful, gift, kindness, love, smile, smiling
213 people liked it

"'...any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.'
-Grandpappy O'Donnell"
— Clive Barker (Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War)

tags: inspirational, love, sadness
63 people liked it

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho

tags: love
264 people liked it

"try and expect nothing,
but be OPEN for anything.
Don't look far for happiness,
but never settle for anything less.
"
— C. S

tags: happiness, love
187 people liked it

"Do I love you because you're beatiful, or are you beatiful because I love you."
— Rodgers & Hammerstein-Cinderella

tags: love
91 people liked it

"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: daughters, growing-up, love, mothers
95 people liked it