quotes about one sided love

History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. ~Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History



If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!" ~Lemony Snicket



If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown



The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave



Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned. ~Henry Drummond



Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. ~Charles du Bos



A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. ~Richard Bach



I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. ~Renita Weems



You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan



He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. Smith



Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones



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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. ~Arthur Ashe



Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ~Ed Howe



The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin



Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. ~Jessamyn West



The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. ~Calvin Trillin



Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. ~Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America, 1956



And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche