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Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.
- Christina Rossetti
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
- Carl Sandburg
If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
- Robert Hillyer
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
- Dalai Lama
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Unknown
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Kahlil Gibran
It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.
- Elvis Presley
One without a friend is like the right hand without the left.
- Bosnian Proverb
Happiness is the delicate balance between what one is and what one has.
- F. H. Denison
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
- John Lubbock
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears--by listening to them.
- Dean Rusk
The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
- Arthur H. Prince
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
-Sydney Smith
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.
- Anonymous
Sometimes the seeds of happiness are sown in darkness.
- Unknown
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
- Sigmund Freud
Today is yesterday's pupil.
- Thomas Fuller
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If one is without kindness, how can one be called a human being?
- Sarada Devi
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.
- Unknown
The very purpose of our life is happiness; the very motion of our lives is toward happiness.
- Dalai Lama
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.
- Elvis Presley
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
- Carl Rogers
There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.
- Richard Nelson
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard
When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram
Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask.
- Billy Graham
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
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- Helen Walton
Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.
- Mother Teresa
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
- Oliver Goldsmith
In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.
- R.H. Grenville
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford
When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.
- Pema Chodron
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
- Henry Ford
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page.
- Saint Augustine
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may grow.
- Unknown
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost
Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?
- Elvis Presley
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
- Agatha Christie
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
- Maxim Gorky
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.
- Eskimo saying
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
- Ashley Montagu
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
-Francois Muriac
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
-Peter Marshall
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
-Vesta M. Kelly
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
-Jesse Jackson
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
-Anonymous
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
-Sydney J. Harris
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
-Danny Kaye
If you want something you've never had before, you've got to do something you've never done before.
-Drina Reed
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
-Dinah Shore
Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
-Robert Orben
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
-Henry Chester
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
-Sigmund Freud
Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
-The Hausa of Nigeria
Whatever you do or dream you can do� begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
-Johann Goethe
Forgiveness is having the courage to take down the walls that we think are there to protect us.
-Suztes40
If you can�t be a good example, then you�ll just have to be a horrible warning.
-Catherine Aird
If it were not for the last minute, nothing would get done.
-Anonymous
Don't regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
-Unknown
When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.
-W.J. Slim
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
-Charles Spurgeon
Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.
-Anonymous
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
No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.
- Minot Simons
We don't need more money, we don't need greater success or fame, we don't need the perfect body or even the perfect mate. Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
- Unknown
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the "I" in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
- Edmond Rostand
A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such "breaks" are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.
- Lawrence Downs
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.
- Winnie the Pooh
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
� Unknown
Don�t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don�t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
-Mencius
Friends are God�s way of taking care of us.
� Unknown
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
-stone temple pilots
I�ll lean on you and you lean on me and we�ll be okay
-Dave Matthews Band
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn�t jump with them; I�d be at the bottom to catch them.
�Unknown
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don�t say.
-Unknown
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
-Tim McGraw
My father always used to say that when you die, if you�ve got five real friends, then you�ve had a great life.
-Lee Lacocca
Hold a true friend with both your hands
-Nigerian Proverb
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
�Unknown
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
-Katherine Mansfield
Mistakes are part of the dues on pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases.
-C.G. Jung
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
-Robert M. Hutchins
Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
�Unknown
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
�Unknown
He who loses money, loses much; he, who loses a friend, loses much more; he, who loses faith, loses all.
�Unknown
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
�Unknown
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can�t live long enough to make them all yourself.
-Unknown
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.
�Unknown
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
�Barbra de Angelis
It�s alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
�Mick Jagger
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another�s personhood.
�Karen Casey
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
�Mother Teresa
Life is just a dream leading only to death.
�unknown
Maybe this is as good as life gets.
�km
Don�t look on the bad of the past, but on the good of today, because it can only get better in the future.
�km
Never be satisfied with yourself; always want to be better, but never be disappointed with how far you�ve come along.
�Courtney O
Dream as if you�ll live forever, live as if you�ll die today.
�James Dean
In this world, nothing�s certain but death.
�Ben Franklin
This is not the end, not even the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning.
�Winston Churchill
Nothing in the affairs of men is worth worrying about.
�Plato
Words are our most deadly weapon.
�km
Remember to always say what you mean. If you love someone, tell them. Don�t be afraid to express yourself. Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you. Because when you decide that it is the right time, it might be too late.
�Unknown
Seize the day. Never have regrets. And most importantly, stay close to your friends and family, for they have helped me you the person that you are today.
�Unknown
A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it
-?
It�s nice to know there is someone you can tell everything to, and they�ll still like you when you�re done.
-?
Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply.
-?
For it is in giving that we receive.
�Saint Francis of Assisi
People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.
�Patch Adams
A true friend inspires you to believe the best in yourself, to keep pursuing your deepest dreams-most wonderful of all; she celebrates all of your successes as if they were her own!
-?
A friend is one who knows you as you really are, understands where you�ve been, accepts who you�ve become, and still gently invites you to grow.
-?
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
-?
My life�s not bad, I�m just pissed you have it so good.
-?
Am I a man dreaming I�m a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming I�m a man?
�?
To me my words are serious; to him my words are laughter.
�km
Make sure you share your heart with someone who values it.
�Tim Smith
Sometimes the best way to find out who you are, is to go to that place where you don�t have to be anything else.
-?
Love is like a photograph, it develops in the dark.
-?
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
�Socrates
Love conquers all.
�Virgil
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can last forever.
�Jessamym West
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
�Karen Kaiser Clark
Life�s just time to get to know yourself.
�km
Life is what happens when your busy making plans.
Everything�s okay in the end, if it�s not okay, then it�s not the end.
-?
If you live without love, you never really live at all.
-?
Never be fooled by a kiss, and never kiss a fool.
-?
Reality has killed the dream I live.
�km
If who I am is what I have and what I have is lost, then who am I?
-?
Patience is a bitter plant, but it has a sweet fruit.
�German Proverb
In silence, we hear the wonders of the world.
-?
In life, there are some things that are supposed to be forever. Like love, happiness, and health. But it takes time for it to happen, but when it�s promised to you by someone and they don�t really mean it, it can be a heart shattering moment.
-?
Life is just an over challenged dream.
�km
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he�ll never lose.
-?
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
-?
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can�t have them.
-?
Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
-?
To the world, you may be someone, but to someone, you may be the world.
-?
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