The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. — Jimi Hendrix
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon. — Ogden Nash
Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day. — Richard Crashaw
Life is too short, so love the one you got. — Bradley Nowell
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. — Lorrie Moore
Love is a promise; love is a souvenir. — John Lennon
Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting. — Dean Martin
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. — D. H. Lawrence
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne
Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too." — Henri Nouwen
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. — Colley Cibber
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. — Andre Maurois
True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain. — Willie Nelson
Short Short Love Quotes
The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling? — Margaret Gatty
Life is short, and time is swift;
Roses fade, and shadows shift. — Ebenezer Elliott
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life. — Richard Lewis
Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being — Barbara Fredrickson
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. — John Lennon
I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes. — Sandra Cisneros
Real love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — Bette Davis
Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves. — Robert Lembke
Top 10 Short Love Quotes
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. — Oscar Wilde
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. — Mary, Queen of Scots
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. — Saadi Shirazi
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. — Mark Twain
All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same. — Marilyn Monroe
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney
Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. — Christine Caine
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
Short Love Image Quotes
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. — Mark Twain
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Short Cute Love Quotes
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead. — Marilyn Monroe
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect. — Oren Arnold
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter. — Henry David Thoreau
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
You're nothing short of my everything. — Ralph Block
The only reward for love is the experience of loving. — John Le Carre
I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you. — Dierks Bentley
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter. — Patricia Briggs
If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you. — Andrew Davidson
I love you as one loves certain dark things. — Pablo Neruda
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
“You are blessed doublee if you are in love”
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“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. — Albert Einstein
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. — George Edward Moore
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. — Amelia Barr
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. — Audre Lorde
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond. — Umberto Eco
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are. — Alanis Morissette
Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. — Kahlil Gibran
In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. — Ben Jonson
My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul. — Boris Kodjoe
Short Story Quotes
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. — Jimmy Buffett
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power. — Raymond Carver
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. — Lynn Abbey
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout. — Julio Cortazar
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself. — Brian D. McLaren
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. — Ray Bradbury
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters — Julio Cortazar
A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa — Ambrose Bierce
To vary your inspiration, consider varying your inputs. Turn the sound off to watch a film, listen to the same song on repeat, read only the first word of each sentence in a short story, arrange stones by size or color, learn to lucid dream. Break habits. Look for differences. Notice connections. — Rick Rubin
Short Length Quotes
I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length. — Avicenna
Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support? — Gerard Majella
Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting. — Karen Thompson Walker
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
They discovered that naps as short as twenty-six minutes in length still offered a 34 percent improvement in task performance and more than a 50 percent increase in overall alertness. — Matthew Walker
If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward. — Unknown
Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial. — Buddha
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. — Lewis Mumford
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. — Christian Nevell Bovee
How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together. — Rohinton Mistry
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying. — Zadie Smith
Short And Sweet Quotes
The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success. — Roy Wilkins
The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot. — Elinor Wylie
I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. — Matt Groening
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Because life is short but sweet for certain — Dave Matthews
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple. — Tim Ferriss
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future. — John Steinbeck
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet. — Robert Rubin
I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time. — Megan McCafferty
...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives. — Jonathan Waterman
I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue. — Charles Montgomery
Love Story Quotes
Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him. — Yasmin Mogahed
The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host. — Fulton J. Sheen
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. — Elif Safak
Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth. — Malcolm Muggeridge
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi
I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great. — Jason Mewes
I think Hollywood, I think America in general, they love redemption stories. — Logan Paul
I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species. — Marlon Brando
So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point. — Chris Martin
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. — Nikolai Gogol
Short Marriage Quotes
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. — Frank Bruno
Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot. — Minnie Pearl
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices. — Amos Oz
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. — Rosemonde Gerard
You know you're in love when you stop comparing. — Mason Cooley
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. — John Keats
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after. — James Dobson
I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — Graeme Simsion
Love Video Quotes
I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen — India.Arie
The early days, when Vine was so special and innovative - I would wake up and immediately want to make videos. I loved it. — Jake Paul
I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley. — Kendrick Lamar
We started recording videos around our house, like, doing dumb stuff. Going four-wheeling or whatever. Then we found out about YouTube and fell in love with it and started uploading our videos. — Jake Paul
If you don't get offended by somebody scoring on you then I don't know what to tell you. That is like somebody breaking into your house and just taking your video game out of your hand and you just let it happen. I know if you do that to me, it ain't going to happen. I love my Xbox. — J. R. Smith
After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, "Oh my god, how girls get ready? This is hilarious, I love this, I'm forgetting about all my problems." — Lilly Singh
I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving. — Misty Copeland
I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium. — Matthew Gray Gubler
I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.' — Caitlin Moran
My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out. — Chris Brown
Simple Love Quotes
I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I'm a plain and simple type of guy. I don't really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more. — Kevin Gates
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. — Mary, Queen of Scots
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. — Shams Tabrizi
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa
You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world! — Anne Frank
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. — Will Rogers
And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple. — William Wordsworth
Ministry is pretty simple. Love people and help them. — T.L. Osborn
If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures. — John Piper
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it. — Harvey Mackay
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence. — Janis Joplin
Remember: Life is short, break the rules — James Dean
Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. This is why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live. You don't have to love me. You already did. — Ryan Ross
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. — Henry Van Dyke
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us. — Elisabeth Elliot
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. — Barbara Johnson
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? — Dorothy Parker
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends — John Lennon
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne
Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. — Saint Augustine
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. — Vita Sackville-West
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. — Thomas De Quincey
The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love. — Janet Erskine Stuart
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor. — Aelred of Rievaulx
Courage is not the absence of fear... — Richard Stengel
Don’t ever sell yourself short. Stand tall. Never be ashamed of who you are. You are beautiful, you are loved. You are needed. You are worth it. Promise me you won’t forget that. Promise me you won’t let your scars define who you are. Let your trials shape you. Let your victories humble you. — Jennifer Nettles
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials. — Dan Savage
If I know what love is, it is because of you. — Hermann Hesse
You are like nobody since I love you. — Pablo Neruda
Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it. — Marcus Allen
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