Quotes of Hosea Ballou

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There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith… Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

- Hosea Ballou

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“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again. ”

- Rick Riordan

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ There are only 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

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ”

- Audrey Hepburn

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple act as a gift of time to the artist. I for one can not say which is more beautiful. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran