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Love is the reason for it all

 

Dorothy Fields

Love is the reason for it all. --Dorothy Fields

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. -- Robert Heinlein

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do...? --Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. --Dr. Seuss

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. --Sophocles

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. --Oscar Wilde

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. --Calvin Coolidge

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. --Whitney Young

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. --Rod Serling

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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