Quotes about Kissing

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
~Albert Einstein

"For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul" ~Judy Garland

"You should be kissed and often
And by someone who knows how"
~Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind

"When you kiss me
Without uttering a single word
You speak to my soul"
~Unknown

"Kissing is like drinking salted water
You drink, and your thirst increases"
~Chinese Proverb

"Life, the gift of nature
Love, the gift of life
A Kiss, the gift of Love"
~Unknown

"Women still remember the first kiss
After men have forgotten the last."
~Remy de Gourmont

"Kisses that are easily obtained
Are easily forgotten."
~English Proverb

"A kiss makes the heart young again
And wipes out the years."
~Unknown

"The soul that can speak through the eyes
Can also kiss with a gaze."
~Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

"The kiss, a sweet discovery
Of oneself after a long search."
~Unknown

"A kiss is a lovely trick
Designed by nature to stop speech
When words become superfluous."
~Ingrid Bergman

Quotes about Education

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." ~Socrates

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." ~Chinese Proverb

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts." ~C. S. Lewis

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions." ~Anonymous

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." ~Anatole France

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." ~Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]

"You teach best what you most need to learn." ~Richard David Bach

"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." ~Anonymous

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." ~John Ciardi

"A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care." ~Richard Pratt, Pacific Computer Weekly, 20 July 1990

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." ~(Louis) Hector Berlioz

"Academy: A modern school where football is taught." ~Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." ~Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." ~G. M. Trevelyan

"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices." ~Laurence J. Peter

"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less." ~Nicholas Murray Butler

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." ~Will Durant

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high." ~Heinrich Heine

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. - Jimmy Connors

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you." ~Aldous Huxley

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." -- John Cotton Dana

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." -- Henry Brooks Adams

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." --George Bernard Shaw

"Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know."-- R. Verdi

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." -- Perelman

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
"Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions." -- William Allin

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." -- Vernon Law

"I may have said the same thing before... But my explanation, I am sure, will always be different." -- Oscar Wilde

"Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm." -- Publilius Syrus

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." -- Jim Rohn
"Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding." -- Ambrose Bierce

"Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively." -- R.D. Clyde

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." -- Sir Claus Moser

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." -- Carl Rogers

"A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear." -- James B. Stockdale

"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life." -- Source Unknown

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." -- Henry Peter Broughan

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." ~J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." ~Thomas Carruthers

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." ~Cicero

"Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it." ~Sir William Haley

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think." ~Anne Sullivan

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." ~Malcolm Forbes

"Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking." ~Mariannne Williamson

Even More Profound Statements

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege." ~John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
~Arthur Rubinstein

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop." ~ Confucious

"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." ~John F. Kennedy


"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
~Robert Collier


"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." ~Mother Teresa


"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
~Martha Washington


"Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love."
~Jareb Teague


"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
~Lena Horne


"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."
~Robert Schuller


"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live." ~Anonymous


"Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy." ~Richard Farson


"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
~Mother Teresa


"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."
~Albert Einstein

"But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing."
~Thomas Paine


"We are blessed -- or cursed -- to live with each other. And I prefer the first."
~Daniel Barenboim


"Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves." ~Muhammad


"The lifetime crusade of your days must be to develop a new energy ethic to sustain life on earth. Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth." ~Stewart Udall


"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
- George Eliot

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Star Wars Episode I

“Failure is not an option.” Ed Harris plays real-life NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz in Apollo 13.

"Healing is not a matter of technique or mechanism; it is a work of spirit." ~Rachel Naomi Remen

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand"
~ Plato

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. "
~ Winston Churchill

"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."
~ Emily Dickinson

"A great man is always willing to be little."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science."
~ Sigmund Freud

"The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves. ~Rachel Carson

"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? A world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine." ~Pierce Brosnan

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye..it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. -- Edvard Munch

Art is our one true global language. It knows no nation. It favors no race. It acknowledges no class. It speaks to our need to heal, reveal and transform. It transcends our ordinary lives and lets us imagine what is possible. It creates a dialogue between individuals, and communication between communities. It allows us to see and to listen to each other. --Richard Kamler

"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger." ~William James

"Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life." ~Norman Cousins

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful." ~Alice Walker

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Nature provides exceptions to every rule." ~Margaret Fuller

"What is now proved was once only imagined." ~William Blake

Live in rooms full of light. -- Cornelius Celsus

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. --Francis Keppel

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. --Mark Twain

"A young child is, indeed, a true scientist, just one big question mark. What? Why? How? I never cease to marvel at the recurring miracle of growth, to be fascinated by the mystery and wonder of this brave enthusiasm." ~Victoria Wagner

"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." ~Dalai Lama

"There is great hunger and thirst in all of us for the truth whether we are aware of it or not. There is no-one unfeeling or unseeing. To think ourselves unique is the height of ignorance." ~Agnes Martin


"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." ~Hans Hofmann


"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life." ~Jean Arp

We are blessed -- or cursed -- to live with each other. And I prefer the first. --Daniel Barenboim

Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles, staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements. --Quote from 'Office Space'

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us. Then the world will live as one. -- John Lennon

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. --Lao Tzu


"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere." ~ Blaise Pascal

"Let him who would move the world first move himself." ~Socrates

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred." ~Barbara De Angelis

"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage." ~Gandhi

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life." ~Greg Anderson

"If a design doesn't feel good in your heart, what the mind thinks doesn't matter." ~April Greiman

"Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking." ~Mariannne Williamson

"See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls." ~Mother Teresa

"Good is the transcendence of self in service to others." ~Michelle Nunn

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything." ~George C. Lichtenberg

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." ~Pablo Picasso

All About Love

"The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart."
~Helen Keller


"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land
among the stars." ~Les Brown

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love. ~Sophocles

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." ~George Sand

The first duty of love is to listen. ~Paul Tillich

A Collection of Profound Statements

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
~Mahatma Gandhi

"Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?" ~Matthew 6:27 [NAB]

"Who gossips to you will gossip of you."
~Turkish Proverb

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
~Alan Kay


"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do." ~Edward Hale

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life
cheerfully have been kindness,
beauty, and truth." ~ Albert Einstein

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." ~ Albert Einstein


"A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold." ~Henry Miller

"A man is but the product of his thoughts.
What he thinks, he becomes."
~Mahatma Gandhi

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."
~Christopher Reeve

"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle." ~Andre Gide

"To forget how to dig the earth and tend
the soil is to forget ourselves."

~Mahatma Gandhi

"We are completely selfish, let there be no mistake about that. This is our river, this is our waterfall, this is our land."
~Joey Smallwood

"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." ~Carol Welch

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is an inside job." ~William Arthur Ward

"You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' " ~George Bernard Shaw

"Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world." ~ Brenda Peterson

'The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of God stands forever.' ~Isaiah

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
~Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." ~ Rachel Carson

"Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance." ~Daniel Goleman


"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

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
~James Allen

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
~John Ruskin

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." ~Henry Van Dyke

"On all occasions of trial He has saved me. I know that the phrase 'God saved me' has a deeper meaning for me today, and still I feel that I have not yet grasped its entire meaning. Only richer experience can help me to a fuller understanding. "
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
~Steven Wright

"A dream you dream alone is a dream. The dream you dream together is a reality." ~ Unknown

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves." ~Joseph Campbell

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." ~Epictetus



"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." ~Lawrence G. Lovasik



"I touch the future. I teach." ~Christa McAuliffe



"Either you're part of the problem or you're part of the solution or you're just part of the landscape." ~J.D. Zeik

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."
~Leo F. Buscaglia

"We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world." ~Muhammad Yunus



"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." ~ Confucius

"A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song." ~ Joan Walsh Anglund

"Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life." ~John Roger

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." ~Lao Tzu



"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it" . ~ Albert Einstein

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." ~Audrey Hepburn

"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." ~Anonymous

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume." ~ Jean de Boufflers

"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons."
~Ruth Ann Schabacker

"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual -- for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost." ~M. Scott Peck

"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me." ~Carl Sandburg

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." ~Henry Miller

"We walk in beauty and we blossom in wisdom, we swim in truth and we fly in joy." ~Darina Stoyanova

"People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech." ~Edwin H. Friedman


Life gives more to those people who see most clearly the beauty and value of what they have.
-- Laura Teresa Marquez