The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Every man casts a shadow;
not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit.
This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,
it falls opposite to the sun;
short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
- Henry David Thoreau
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
This is my ultimate fantasy:
watching QVC with a credit card
while making love and eating at the same time.
- Yasmine Bleeth
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- Anonymous
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
He who marries for love without money
has good nights and sorry days.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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