Een echte kaart of brief is altijd leuker dan een voorgedrukt exemplaar bij een online aanbieder. In dit artikel delen we 50 inspirerende Engelstalige quotes met je welke je op een kaart of in een brief kunt zetten.
1. “You are the only one who can fill up this space in my heart.” – Unknown
2. “When I tell you I love you, I am not saying it out of habit, I am reminding you that you are my life.” – Unknown
3. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan
4. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne
5. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft
6. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Unknown
7. “I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” – Ben Folds
8. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Nat King Cole
9. “I’d rather spend one moment holding you than a lifetime knowing I never could.”
10. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” – Pablo Neruda
11. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
12. “Love is not finding someone to live with, it’s finding someone you can’t live without.” – Rafael Ortiz
13. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
14. “I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don’t be afraid I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you for a thousand more.” – Christina Perri
15. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.” – Roy Croft
16. “I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me wings to fly.” – Tigerlily
17. “If I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther
18. “If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” – Steve Jobs
19. “Tell me the story of your sorrows, and I will tell you the story of mine.” – Khalil Gibran
20. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
21. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Dalai Lama
22. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
23. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Socrates
24. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” – Andre Breton
25. “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
26. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
27. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.” – Hugh Grant
29. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” – Allen Saunders
30. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
31. “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson
32. “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” – Colette
33. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
34. “You can’t be real! May I pinch you to see if I’m dreaming?” – Unknown
35. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway
36. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin
37. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” – Paulo Coelho
38. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
39. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
40. “You are never too old to set new goals or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
41. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
42. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – J.M. Power
43. “You can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” – Ronald Reagan
44. “When you stand up to be counted
Tell the world this is my voice” – Shannon Saunders
45. “The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.” – Kobe Bryant
46. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
47. “If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill
48. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
49. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
50. “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” – J.M.
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