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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
-
Elbert Hubbard
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tsu
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
- Anne Frank
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Chinese proverb
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Each one has to find his peace from within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Anonymous
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
-
Leo Buscaglia
Tears and laughter cleanse the heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-
Confucius
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
-
Mencius
A friend is someone who understands my past, believes in my future, and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
-
Helen Keller
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-
Marie Curie
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
-
Bertrand Russell
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
-
Charles Caleb Colton
Tears and laughter cleanse the heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
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