Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

- Johann Gottfried Von Herde

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I’d never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

– Mercedes McCambridge

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.

– Andre Maurois

If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday.

– Steve Maraboli

Love is the beauty of the soul.

– Saint Augustine

Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around – you are its master!

– Stephen Richards

Nothing is on fire, fire is on things.

If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.

– Stephen Stills

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

– Robert Herrick

Lost time is never found again.

– Benjamin Franklin

I know I’m not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

– Melanie Chisholm

We are most alive when we’re in love.

– John Updike

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

– Langston Hughes

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

– Benjamin Franklin

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can’t have more than you have until you do better than you’re doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can’t do better than you’re doing until you can have more than you have.

– Criss Jami

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

– Igor Stravinsky

Love is… never asking for more than you are prepared to give.

– Kim Casali

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

– Henny Youngman

I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

– Thomas Merton

Love’ is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.

– Amit Kalantr

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

– Rufus Wainwright

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

– Benjamin Franklin

The pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

– Ritu Ghatourey

True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

– Jennifer Aniston

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

– Albert Einstein