“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“If you wear a falconry glove to the park and frantically look around the sky, everyone with a small dog will leave.”
– Friar Duck
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“What fascinates me about humanity is that so many people are looking for reasons to be unhappy.”
– Gilbert, on The Sandman
“Joy is unfocused gratitude.”
– Roy H. Williams
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart.” – John Steinbeck
“You like a person because of… But you love a person in spite of…”
– from the movie, “Set it Up”.
“When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Love conceals ugliness, but hate sees many faults.”
– an old Irish Proverb
“Imagine an atheist stuck at a green light behind a car with a ‘Honk If You Love Jesus’ bumper sticker.”
– Indy Beagle
“Some people call me the space cowboy.
Some call me the gangster of love.”
BARISTA: “I’m just gonna put Steve on the cup.”
“Be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
– Eva Gabor
“You have to work hardest for the things you love most.”
– Carol S. Dweck
“Men love with their eyes. Women love with their ears.”
– Dr. Nick Grant
“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”
– Robert Anton Wilson
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
– Simon Sinek
“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage.”
– Lorrie Moore
“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud.”
– Shauna Niequist
“Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens.”
– Shauna Niequist
“Love all love. Hate all hate.”
– John D. MacDonald
“To love is to be vulnerable.”
– C.S. Lewis
“I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.”
– Brennan Manning
” I love those who can smile in trouble…”
– Leonard da Vinci
” ‘Ole!’ to you, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“Frankly there isn’t anyone you can’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story.”
– Andrew Stanton
“It may be called puppy love, but it’s real to the puppy.”
– Meisje
“My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”
– Tom Robbins
“There have been very few immortals who did not love wine; offhand we cannot think of any and we do not intend to try very hard.”
– John Steinbeck
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
– Oscar Wilde
“The love that you do not give dies with you.”
– Janis Ian
“Love is a great beautifier.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“Love isn’t something you feel. It’s something you give.”
– Iome Sylvarresta
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
– George Sand
“If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?”
– Stanislaw Lec
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”
– Margaret Atwood
“Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”
– Lisa Simpson
“Catch the foxes for us. The little foxes that are ruining the vineyards while our vineyards are in blossom.” – Song of Solomon
“Being joyful isn’t what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.”
– Ann Voskamp
“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.”
– Seneca
“One of the most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”
– Robert Heinlein
“There can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy for you, too.”
– Frederick Buechner
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault
“Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
– Marianne Williamson
“It takes courage to reinvent joys and hopes that you have set aside.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
“Happy people have learned to celebrate the ordinary and find joy in life’s little pleasures.”
– Richard Exley