Random Inspirational Quotes

"It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?"

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

"Every great love starts with a great story..."

"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come."

"Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant."

"I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational."

"I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come."

"As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end."

"We're stronger than we think."

"Past is Past [10w] Lovers should clearly avoid obsessing about each other's romantic past."

"Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis."

"When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying."

"I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years."

"Where there is love there is life."

"And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."

"If you can think independently, you are the master of this universe."

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"The truth of the story lies in the details."

"Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing."

"Ranger Smith, Unemployement and the Possibility of Unperceived Existence If a tree falls in the forest and we're not there,do we fire the park ranger without making a sound?"