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"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where
"Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great."
"Life's only worth living if you've been loved by a kid."
"It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, a day to fall in love with someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone."
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."
"Flowers are words which even a baby can understand."
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
"For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain."
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
"I always get what I want because I always want what I get."
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience."
"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
"I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities."
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
"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 opened for us."
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment."
"Fear less, hope more;
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives
in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long
after your good health has vanished."
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
"Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
"The biggest human temptation is...to settle for too little."
"A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance."
"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dream to someone else."
"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."
"To have a passion for life is not only to wake up in the morning and hear birds singing, but it is taking the time to open the window to see where they are perched on the tree."
"Instead of looking for success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy."
"Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similiarities."
"Your biggest competitor is your own view of your future."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-George Santayana
-George Bernard Shaw
that something else is more important than fear."
-Ambrose Redmoon
-Goethe
there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Kenny Rogers
-Buzz Lightyear, in Toy Story 2
-Unknown
-Anna Louise Strong
-Hellen Keller
-Maya Angelou
-Diane Ackerman
-Arthur C. Coxe
-Rainer Maria Rilke
-Lyster
-Billy Sunday
-William Feather
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George Washington
-Sydney Smith
-Tim Bischoff
-George Santayana
-Henry Van Dyke
-Henry Drummond
-William Butler Yeats
-Theodor S. Geisel
-Langston Hughes
-Helen Keller
-Helen Keller
-Mark Twain
-Ben Franklin
-Ralph Marston
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
-Swedish Proverb
-Ken Keys
-Og Mandino
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
-Alexander Smith
-Robert Frost
-Muhammad Ali
-Orison Swett Marden
-Justine Milton
-Mahatma Gandhi
-Oscar Wilde
-Thomas Merton
-Paul Duffy
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
-Erma Bombeck
-Anna Quindlen
-Neil Simon
-Oprah Winfrey
-James L. Fredericks
-Watts Wacker & Jim Taylor
-Eleanor Roosevelt
