Lily > Lily's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 34

« previous 1 2 next »

like

#1

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: living

1451 likes

like

#2

“Man is what he believes.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: belief

328 likes

like

#3

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

165323 likes

like

#4

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

34811 likes

like

#5

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

5323 likes

like

#6

“If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

1104 likes

like

#7

“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

1246 likes

like

#8

“Act without expectation.”
― Lao Tzu

731 likes

like

#9

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu

2095 likes

like

#10

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119192 likes

like

#11

“The best revenge is massive success.”
― Frank Sinatra

328 likes

like

#12

“I'm gonna live till I die.”
― Frank Sinatra

132 likes

like

#13

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
― Frank Sinatra

214 likes

like

#14

“You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.”
― Frank Sinatra

138 likes

like

#15

“For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.”
― Frank Sinatra

61 likes

like

#16

“The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.”
― Frank Sinatra

58 likes

like

#17

“Go fuck yourself," I replied, always the lady. "I'm staying here.”
― Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story

tags: ava-gardner, fighting, frank-sinatra, humor

63 likes

like

#18

“Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.”
― Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story

tags: ava-gardner, infidelity, love, marriage, sex

103 likes

like

#19

“I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.”
― Ava Gardner

tags: death

76 likes

like

#20

“Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.”
― Ava Gardner

32 likes

like

#21

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

26802 likes

like

#22

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

18673 likes

like

#23

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

19859 likes

like

#24

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson, Insignificance

tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy

13819 likes

like

#26

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

1721 likes

like

#27

“I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: perfection

173 likes

like

#28

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

4613 likes

like

#29

“I want eroticism mixed with love, and deep love one does not experience often.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: eroticism

13 likes

like

#30

“Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.”
― Marian Engel, Bear

tags: eroticism, libertinism, sexuality

9 likes

like

#31

“As she spoke she changed in some provocative way, seemed suddenly drenched in eroticism as a diver rising out of a pool gleams like chrome with a sheet of unbroken water for a fractional moment.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

tags: analogy, eroticism, provocative, simile

7 likes

« previous 1 2 next »

All Quotes

Tags From Lily’s Quotes

living
belief
attributed-no-source
best
life
love
misattributed-marilyn-monroe
mistakes
out-of-control
truth
worst
courage
deeply-loved
strength
widely-misattributed
travel
misattributed
misattributed-lao-tzu
humor
ava-gardner
fighting
frank-sinatra
infidelity
marriage
sex
death
chocolate
food
misattributed-mark-twain
philosophy
theology
misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe
perfection
eroticism
libertinism
sexuality
analogy
provocative
simile