quotes and sayings about love and happiness

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false. ~Geoffrey Barraclough, History in a Changing World



Famous non-quotation: a well-known phrase attributed to someone who, in fact, did not say it; this may be due to (1) parody or satire of the original, (2) a corruption or mistranslation of the original phrase, possibly accidental, which became better known than the original, (3) a deliberate misquoting or made-up quote intended to discredit the alleged speaker, or (4) attribution to a well-known person to improve the appearance of the phrase or the person.



Live simply that others might simply live. ~Elizabeth Ann Seton



The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.... ~Carl Jung



She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ~Tommy Manville



Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com



The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. ~David Ben-Gurion



Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ~Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun



I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. ~Ida B. Wells



Without geography, you're nowhere. ~Author Unknown



A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. ~Stanislaw J. Lec



We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ~Eric Hoffer



The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. ~Author Unknown



The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson



They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson