"We can only learn to love by loving."
- Iris Murdoch
Love
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
- Iris Murdoch
Awareness
"The theatre is a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit: put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good."
- Iris Murdoch
Personal Growth
"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."
- Iris Murdoch
Creativity
"Fishing seems to be the great occasion when all manner of contradictions reconcile themselves."
- Iris Murdoch
Wisdom
"We cannot control who we fall in love with, but we can choose how we treat them."
- Beauty and the Beast
Relationships
"I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it."
- Nick Cannon
Relationships
"It’s not what’s under the tree that matters, it’s who’s gathered around it."
Relationships
"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same."
- Donald E. Westlake
Relationships
"A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright."
- Lucille Ball
Relationships