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1) "Live. A lot. Unleash yourself upon the world and go!"

2) "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --Albert Einstein

3) "Memory is not as beautiful as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times true. --George Dennison

4) "The only true gift is a portion of yourself." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

5) "Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it."

6) "Each has a past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart. And his friends can only read the title. --Virginia Woolf

7) "Friends are the strawberries on the shortcake of life."

8) "Romance is a state of mind, an attitude. It's not so much what you do as how you do it. This is why little gestures work so well."

9) "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

10) "If anything really matters when all this is over, I know it will be our love."

11) "Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."--Groucho Marx

12) "There is no love as true as love that dies untold."

13) "A heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating just the same."

14) "My mistakes have been my heartache, but I wouldn't be who I am without them."

15) "People in love don't forget. . . they forgive." --Indecent Proposal

16) "We must always have old memories and young hopes." --Arsene Houssaye

17) "The best part of living is loving."

18) "It's great when the person that you're in love with can be your best friend." --Meg Ryan

19) "Time waits for no man, but true love waits forever." --Mel Gibson (Forever Young)

20) ". . . So I am going to kiss you. A nice long, slow, soft, deep kiss. Then I'm going to walk away. And that'll end it."

21) "Oh! Death will find me long before I tire of watching you."

22) "I'll just wake up every monring and breathe in and out. . .and after awhile I won't have to think about it." --Tom Hanks (Sleepless in Seattle)

23) "Your will chooses me, but your heart chooses him." --Sean Connery (First Knight)

24) "Then you have the best of it; my will is stronger than my heart. . . my will holds me steady on my course through life." --Julia Ormond (First Knight)

25) "I don't make sense, he don't make sense, together we make sense." --Marisa Tomei (Untamed Heart)

26) "Equality. . .I understand the concept, but I can't find an example. --YM Magazine

27) "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve." --Napoleon Hill

28) "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge." --Danile J. Boorstin

29) "We can do only what we think we can do. We can only be what we think we can be. We can only have what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend on what we think." --Collier

30) "Every man dies, but not every man really lives. --Mel Gibson (Braveheart)

31) "Love looks not with the eyes, but the with the mind, and therefore is wing'd cupid, painted blind." --William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

32) "She was filled with a strange, wild, unfamiliar happiness, and knew that this was love. . .never before, not even in dreams, and she was a great dreamer of love, had she felt anything remotely like it." --Nancy Mitford (The Pursuit of Love)

33) "All the privilege I claim for my own sex. . .is that of loving longest when existence or hope is gone." --Jane Austen

34) "See! How she leans her cheek upon her hand; O! that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek." --William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

35) "Her lips trembled and so did his. It was never known which lips were the first to move towards the other lips; but they kissed tremblingly, and then they moved apart. --George Eliot (Middlemarch)

36) "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" --William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

37) "Say I'm wary, say I'm sad, say that health and wealth have missed me, say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me." --James Henry Leigh Hunt (Rondeau)

38) "A women's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling siutation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience." --Wallis Simpson

39) "You will do foolish things in life, but do them with enthusiasm." --Colette

40) "Life is what happens to you while you make other plans." --Betty Talmadge

41) "I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." --Katherine Mansfield

42) "One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night." --Margaret Mead

43) "Tears may dry up, but the heart-never." --Margueritte de Valois

44) "In youth we learn, in age we understand." --Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

45) "There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then." --Hazel Scott

46) "It's the friends that call you up at 4 a.m. that matter." --Marlene Dietrich

47) "Age is something that doesn't matter, unelss you are a cheese." --Billie Burke

48) "Women are repeatedly accused of taking things too personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them." --Marya Mannes

49) "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I never tried before." --Mae West

50) "One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom." --Susan Hoewatch

51) "In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on women." --Nancy Astor

52) "If we'd only stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time." --Edith Wharton

53) "The ony thing that makes life possible is permanent, intoerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next." --Ursula K. Le Guin

54) "It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have time." --Tallulah Bankhead

55) "You don't know a woman until you've had a letter from one." --Ada Leverson

56) "A man has got to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold." --Marlo Thomas

57) "Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough." --Dinah Shore

58) ". . .That is best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny." --Gloria Vanderbilt

59) "You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." --Mary Tyler Moore

60) "One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man." --Marlo Thomas

61) "I don't need a man to rectify my existence. the most profound relationship we have is the one with ourselves." --Mary Dixon Thayer

62) "Oh, I am so inadequate-and I love myself!" --Meg Ryan

63) "When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then if they like what they see, they listen." --Pauline Frederick

64) "I am not a gourmet chick." --Pearl Bailey

65) "Personally I tink if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she is 24, she may be lucky." --Deborah Kerr

66) "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. --Katherine Hepburn

67) "It's never too late, in fiction or in life-to revise." --Nancy Thayer

68) "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." --Jeanne Moreau

69) "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." --Dolores Ibarruri

70) "Men are taught to apologize for the weaknesses, women for their strengths." --Lois Wyse

71) "When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love, you site." --Miss Manners (Judith Martin)

72) "They way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." --Dolly Parton

73) "I'm suggesting we call sex something else, and it should include everything from kissing to sitting close together." --Shere Hite

74) "The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions." --Susan Sontag

75) "My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaeous aversion for the man I loved." --Colette

76) "Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together." --Jacqueline Bisset

77) "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but someone." --Coco Chanel

78) "If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?" --Lily Tomlin

79) "Sometiemes we must wait patiently for the treasures of life. Sometimes those treasures wait patiently for us.

80) "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayl of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

81) "Absence may not make the heart grow fonder, but abstinence does."

82) "Faith is permitting ourselves to be sized by the things we do not see." --Martin Luther

83) "Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in." --Ellen Goodman

84) "There are no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by." --Annie Dillard

85) "A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper." --Barry Niel Kaufman

86) "Often the best thing about not saying anything is that it can't be repeated." --Susan L. Wiener

87) "Bliss in possession will not last, remembered joys are never past." --James Montgomery

88) "Friendship is certainly the first balm for the pangs of disappointed love." --Jane Austin

89) "There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." --Henry David Thoreau

90) "Good manners open doors that the best education will not." --Clarence Thomas

91) "She had a smile I would accept as my last view of earth." --Wallace Stegner

92) "Each day we have together is one more than we deserve." --Robert Redford (Up Close and Personal)

93) "Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell." --Emily Dickinson

94) "If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem." --Joan Crawford

95) "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart, or burn down your hosue you can never tell." --Joan Crawford

96) "Reality is something you rise above." --Liza Minneli

97) "I'll wait for you forever." --Legends of the Fall

98) "We can only learn love by loving." --Iris Murdoch

99) "Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself." --Dorris Tessing

100) "If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be."


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