Whether you are in love or falling in love, there’s just something about love that makes us all want to turn to the sages for some quotes about love to explain our condition.

Here are some of the quirkiest quotes about love we could find from the lovers, the poets, the philosophers, the literary geniuses, and even the scientists among us. Instead of chocolates, give your special Valentine the words of love.

20 Offbeat Quotes About Love

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. – Albert Einstein

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. – Charles M. Schulz

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm

Love is space and time measured by the heart. – Marcel Proust

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.  – Dr. Seuss

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.

“Pooh!” he whispered.

“Yes, Piglet?”

“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw.

“I just wanted to be sure of you.” – A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. – Maya Angelou

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. – Ken Kesey

The course of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. –  Zelda Fitzgerald

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.  – Oscar Wilde

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. –  Friedrich Nietzsche

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost

Who loves, raves. – Lord Byron

My dear,  find what you love and let it kill you. – Charles Bukowski

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. – Tom Robbins

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Beauty means many different things to many different people – it is truly in the eye of the beholder. However, it seems we all listen a bit more closely to what celebrities have to say about the matter, down to the most detailed of makeup, skincare and hair tips.

And, there’s no denying, it’s all for good reason. Celebrities depend on their looks for fame, money and notoriety, and with that comes a huge knowledge base concerning the best hair, makeup and skin tips, products and therapies. Here are 15 quotes, suggestions and other heresay from our most beloved celebrities about their prized skincare, makeup and hair tips.

Skincare tips:

1. Crème de la Mer has long been touted by celebrities as the crème de la crème of, well, la mer of beauty products. It has a cult following, including Christina Applegate, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez and Marcia Cross. Two ounces will cost you a whopping $295, but it may just be worth the investment.

2. Tata Harper’s Hydrating Floral Essence will cost you $65 for 4.1 fluid ounces, and an aroma reminiscent of a bouquet of the freshest, purest flowers will follow you all day long. Jessica Alba labels this

3. Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o told Glamour, “I use avocado oil and Hawaiian kukui oil on my face. I like to keep things natural, simple, and straightforward.”

4. “If my skin is dull or I have red spots before a big event, I sweep raw lemon over it, to make it brighter. It stings a bit, but it’s not at all harming. It’s my favorite thing.” – Scarlet Johansson, Marie Claire.

5. “I just use natural grape seed oil from the grocery store on my face as a moisturizer. After the shower, I pat it on, and then I’ll use it throughout the day and at night. I pretty much smell like grape all the time.” – Emma Stone, Style.com

Makeup tips:

1. “The only brand of makeup I use these days is 100% Pure. It’s been around for years. The brand makes every single product you can imagine, and they are all legitimately 100 percent pure. But if we’re doing a photo shoot and we need something colorful, I’ll use Tarte. It’s the most mainstream brand I’ve found that still takes that extra step in the right direction.” – Shailene Woodley, Natural Health

2. Kate Hudson revealed to Daily Makeover that she takes the painful route, dunking her face in an ice bath to give a boost to her glow.

3. “I apply two to three coats of mascara. To finish off my look I apply lip balm if I want a more natural look, or a tint or lipstick in a shade of red if I want to make more of a statement – the red also brightens my complexion instantly. If I need a little more coverage I sparingly use RMS concealer where required.” – Miranda Kerr, Kora Organics

4. “I wear a lot more glitter around the holidays so I’m always wearing different glitter nail polish or fun metallic eye shadow. It’s the holidays—everything is more twinkly and celebratory.” – Blake Lively, Harper’s Bazaar

5. “I use the ColorScience Primer, which is mineral-based, so I don’t get zits anymore.” – Maria Menounos, Allure

Hair tips:

1. “Hair-wise, I love using coconut oil as a treatment and apple cider vinegar for shininess—you put on a little bit in the shower as a rinse, and then wash it out. It stinks a little, but then you use conditioner and the smell goes away.” – Miranda Kerr, Into the Gloss

2. “Once a year, we all still get together and put mayonnaise in our hair for old times’ sake.” – Zoe Saldana, Refinery 29

3. “I use shampoo and conditioner from Living Libations. It’s an amazing company based out of Canada. I also use their Seabuckthorn Best Skin Ever to wash my face, and I like the Lavender Poetic Pits underarm essential oil blend.” – Shailene Woodley, Natural Health

4. “At the moment I prefer a low braid or a high topknot, as they both require little time and effort but still look feminine and polished.” – Miranda Kerr, Kora Organics

5. “My hair is always better in California than it is in New York, so I got a big water jug and I filled it with ocean, which is probably a really bad idea, but I would put it on my hair, and, actually, it worked. It’s salt and it’s water and it makes your hair a little crunchier and holds it a little better.” – Blake Lively, Style.com

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These quote art prints belong in your home because, as a wise man once said, “quotes are the absolute tippy tops.” Okay, it was me. But hear me out.

These artifacts of human truth and experience often enter our lives at exactly the time we need them, and breed motivation, clarity, courage, perspective, and more. Though some can be overdone (“Keep Calm and…”, I’m looking your way), there is a unique quote or saying for everyone to incorporate into their own personal journey. Bring some wisdom, thoughtfulness, and positive energy to your walls by nesting out your nook with these 11 quote art prints.

1. “One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin” – Billy Shakes (or William Shakespeare, as you may know him) drops some nice nature knowledge in this gorgeous walnut plywood veneer designed by Tanamachi Studio.
2. “Love Yourself” – Lim Heng Swee’s simple quote and adorable design offers a solid reminder to give yourself a little love; how you interpret this instruction, however, is entirely up to you.
3. “We Began as Wanderers and We’re Wanderers Still” – Quoted from Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos,” Casey Ligon’s chalk lettering mastery is perfect for the wanderlusters among us.
4. “Fortune Favors the Bold” – Featuring one of my favorite quotes of all time, Lauren Hom’s appropriately bold hand-lettering and design for Help Ink definitely deserve a spot on your wall.
5. “Believe in Your Fucking Self” Classic Advice Print – In what may be the motivational poster to end all motivational posters, Good Fucking Design Advice’s long, thoughtful list is some of the fucking best advice out there for creatives of all kinds.
6. “Reading is Radical” – Komboh’s delightfully illustrated print is perfect for a kid’s room or as a simple self-reminder to get away from your screen and bury your nose in a book more often.
7. “Do Good” – This quote art print by 55 Hi’s is as simple and beautiful as the advice itself.
8. “Put Others Before Yourself. It’s Better.” – Hoodzpah Design Co.’s gorgeous piece on selflessness for Krochet Kids Intl raises one question: do you buy this for yourself, or someone else?
9. “Bring Your Own Sunshine” – The ever-optimistic Tang Yau Hoong will bring some sunshine and perspective into your home with this incredible print. As a Seattlite, I may have to get a dozen of these to hang around my house.
10. “The Love you Take is Equal to the Love you Make” – This quote art print, inspired by The Beatles’ “The End” and designed by Jacqui Oakley for Help Ink, reminds us that, in love, like many other parts of life, we get out of it what we put in.
11. “Aim to Misbehave” – Maricor/Maricar’s print of their famous hand-embroidered lettering visually inspires us to be rebels, shake up the everyday, and look saucy in the process.

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Chocolate is my favorite hobby. No explanation needed – I’m sure you all understand. I always keep an emergency piece (or two) of chocolate in my purse and never go to bed without at least one bite of it. And, I am most certainly not alone.

The following 20 chocolate quotes capture the passion and deep-seated love for chocolate:

“All You need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

“Don’t wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. Chocolate isn’t like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant. And it always feels good.” – Lora Brody

“Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. It is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.” – Baron Justus von Liebig

“It’s not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let’s face it, far more reliable than a man.” – Miranda Ingram

“He showed the words ‘chocolate cake’ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.” – Michael Pollan

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.” – Katharine Hepburn

“If there’s no chocolate in Heaven, I’m not going.” – Jane Seabrook

“The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.” – Sandra Boynton

“As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.” – Sandra Boynton

“Any sane person loves chocolate.” – Bob Greene

“Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world’s perfect food.” – Michael Levine

“Every now and then, I’ll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don’t trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they’re probably – and this must be said – total duds in bed.” – Steve Almond

“Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.” – Fernando Pessoa

“Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can’t remember what they are.” – Matt Lauer

“I never met a chocolate I didn’t like.” – Deanna Troi

“If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?” – Marquise de Sévigné

“My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.” – Alicia Silverstone

“Once in a while I say, ‘Go for it’ and I eat chocolate.” – Claudia Schiffer

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ColumnThese are food quotes that remind you why you love eating and cooking.

I have a few food quotes I always come back to. Words that remind me of why I love to make and eat food. Why I love to sharing food with others. We all have to eat; food is the building block of humanity.

If you need a little inspiration for cooking and sharing, this is it. Print them all out, hang them on the kitchen wall, and keep fighting the good food fight!

1. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” – Frank Lebowitz

2. “This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.” – Mark Bittman

3. “If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” – Cesar Chavez

4. “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces — just good food from fresh ingredients.” – Julia Child

5. “If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?” – Ymber Delecto

6. “We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.” – Epicurus

7. “If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.” – Kahlil Gibran

8. “Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” – Voltaire

9. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf

10. “What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” – Lin Yutang

11. “The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.” – Samuel Chamberlain

12. “Laughter is brightest in the place where food is.” – Irish Proverb

13. “Let things taste the way they are.” – Alice Waters

14. “This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain’t normal.” – Joel Salatin

15. ““The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore

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Inspirational quotes to overcome fear, take a leap of faith and and pursue courageousness. 

Whether we’re starting a new job, prepping for a difficult conversation or just in need of an extra push to get us out of our comfort zone, we all need a little extra courage. No matter what you’re doing, here are 22 inspirational quotes to motivate you and inspire your courageous side.

1. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. -Nelson Mandela

2. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? -Vincent Van Gogh

3. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ -Eleanor Roosevelt

4. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. -John F. Kennedy

5. From caring comes courage. -Lao Tzu

6. One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. -Maya Angelou

7. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. -Coco Chanel

8. Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. -Confucius

9. I think my mother… made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected. -Caroline Kennedy

10. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

11. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. -Anais Nin

12. Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. –Susan Gale

13. Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. -Thomas Szasz

14. If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.-John Maxwell

15. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -Mark Twain

16. To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. -Soren Kierkegaard

17. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca

18. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. –Mark Twain

19. Optimism is the foundation of courage. -Nicholas Murray Butler

20. Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. -Arthur Koestler

21. Courage is grace under pressure. -Ernest Hemingway

22. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. -Winston Churchill

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Ecosalon’s favorite inspirational quotes on spring.

1. I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.  -Ruth Stout

2. The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. -Burl Ives

3. The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. -Harriet Ann Jacobs

4. Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature. –Gerard de Nerval

5. Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. -Doug Larson

6. She turned to the sunlight

And shook her yellow head,

And whispered to her neighbor:

“Winter is dead.” -A.A. Milne

7. All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar. – Helen Hayes

8. And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran

9. You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.  -Pablo Neruda

10. Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. – Ellis Peters

11. If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

12. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. -Nadine Stair

13. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. –Anne Bradstreet

14. One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring. -Aldo Leopold

15. I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. -Langston Hughes

16. Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”  -Robin Williams

17. Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. –Robert H. Schuller

18. It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. –Rainer Maria Rilke

19. Spring is God’s way of saying, ‘One more time!’ -Robert Orben

20. Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. –Virgil Kraft

21. Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. -W. Earl Hall

22. When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.-Bishop Reginald Heber

23. Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? -Neltje Blanchan

24. Spring is the time of plans and projects. -Leo Tolstoy

25. All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. –Indian Proverb

26. Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. -Yoko Ono

27. April is a promise that May is bound to keep.  -Hal Borland

28. Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking. -Miranda Priestly in Devil Wears Prada

29. Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. -William Alexander

30. If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring. –Victor Hugo

31. I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture. -David Hockney

32. An optimist is the human personification of spring. – Susan J. Bissonette

33. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.  -Margaret Atwood

34. April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. -William Shakespeare

35. The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. -Ernest Hemingway

36. Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love. – e.e. cummings

37. Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.  -Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

38. Nature’s first green is gold. -Robert Frost

39. No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow -Proverb

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Here are 15 inspirational quotes about tea that prove it is more than a hot drink.

If you are anything like me, tea is a sacred part of your day. I love to try out the various herbal tea concoctions available at my local grocery store and nothing sets me straighter than a warm tea sweetened lightly with stevia or honey. Whether beside the computer as I get to business or within arms reach as I indulge in a book, tea sets the mood and is more than just a delight for the lips – it’s an inspiration.

1. A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. –Eleanor Roosevelt
2. When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over. -Audrey Hepburn
3. Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. -Alice Walker
4. Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. -Henry James
5. You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. Lewis
6. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. -Abraham Lincoln
7. I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. -Wilkie Collins
9. A cup of tea would restore my normality. -Douglas Adams
10. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment? -Muriel Barbery
11. If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited, it will calm you. -William Ewart Gladstone
12. Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea. -Mary Elizabeth Braddon
14. There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. -Lin Yutang
15. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. -Kakuzō Okakura

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If you’re not weird, you’re lying. Here’s a round-up of inspirational quotes for the beautiful freaks in the house. You’re welcome.

1. A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. –Seneca
2. Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. –St. Francis De Sales
3. Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd. –Anonymous
4. I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. –Mahatma Gandhi
5. Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out? –Oliver James
6. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. –Mark Twain
8. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. –Marilyn Monroe
9. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. –Maya Angelou
10. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. –Allen Ginsberg
11. Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else –Judy Garland
12. If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. – Frank Zappa
13. A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants. –Coco Chanel
14. Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are. –Lady Gaga
15. Be Yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be. –Henry David Thoreau
16. Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. –Brian Tracy
17. Never dull your shine for somebody else. –Tyra Banks
18. You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant? –Dr. Seuss
19. Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for. –Oliver James
20. Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got. –Janis Joplin
21. Find out who you are and do it on purpose. –Dolly Parton
22. We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. –Virginia Satir
23. Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. –Kongzi
24. When one is pretending the entire body revolts. –Anaïs Nin
25. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are. –Kurt Cobain
26. Where’s your will to be weird? –Jim Morrison
27. I’m the pink sheep in the family. –Alexander McQueen
28. I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. –Johnny Depp
29. Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own. –Angelina Jolie
30. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in. –Janeane Garofalo
31. I am not afraid… I was born to do this. –Joan of Arc

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31 of the best inspirational quotes for romantics to lift the spirits.

1. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Marcel Proust

2. Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. –Antoine de Saint-Exupery

3. We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. -Thornton Wilder

4. Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time. -Haruki Murakami

5. So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. -Paulo Coelho

6. With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me. –Jarod Kintz

7. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -William Shakespeare

8. We looked into each other’s eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself. -Stanislaw J. Lee

9. Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. -Louis de Bernieres

10. Each time you happen to me all over again. -Edith Wharton

11. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love. -Mother Teresa

12. In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. -Kahlil Gibran

13. Anyone can be passionate, it takes real lovers to be silly. –Rose Franken

14. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. -Alexander Smith

15. And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars. -Beth Revis

16. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. -Rumi

17. He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. -Emily Brontë

18. Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it…It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong

19. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. -Flavia Weedn

20. Life is a flower of which love is the honey. -Victor Hugo

21. Only from the heart can you touch the sky. -Rumi

22. Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -Franklin P. Jones

23. I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

24. Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night. -William Shakespeare

25. When you are gone all the colors fade. -Amos Lee

26. At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense. -Hermann Hesse

27. If I had the stars from the darkest night

And the diamonds from the deepest ocean,

I’d forsake them all for your sweet kiss,

For that’s all I’m wishin’ to be ownin’. -Bob Dylan

28. You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. -Oscar Wilde

29. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.  -Michael D. Montaigne

30. Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. -Charles Dickens

31. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. -David Viscott

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