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Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. -Helen Keller
In order to carry out great enterprises, one must live as if one will never have to die. -Marguis de Vauvenaques
The heart has reasons that reason does not know.
Life is a work of art, designed by the one who lives it.
Take time to laugh, it's the music of the soul.
Friendship is the gold thread that ties hearts together.
Promises are made to be kept.
The reward for a good deed is to have done it.
Whatever you give will find countless ways back to you.
Music touches feelings that words cannot.
We are all role models whether we choose to be or not.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
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. -Muhammad Ali
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not length of life, but depth of life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Gandhi
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. -Jean-Paul Sartre
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -Harvey Fierstein
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. -Henry David Thoreau
Where there is great love, there are always wishes. -Willa Cather
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. -H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place.
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. -Henry Drummond
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. -James Baldwin
Love means never having to say you're sorry. -Erich Segal
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' -Erich Fromm
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. -Anatole France
Hard work never killed anybody but why take the chance?
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it; Death cannot kill what never dies. - William Penn
For men may come or men may go, but I go on forever. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
Life is eternal and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing, save the limit of our sight. - Nathaniel Swifte
From hence, ye beauties undeceived; Know one false step is ne'er retrieved; and be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wandering eyes and heedless hearts is lawful prize; not all that glitter's gold. - Tomas Gray
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. - Anon
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. -Friedrich Halm "Ingomar the Barbarian"
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exueperv
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. -Clark Gable
Marriage is kind of frightening, but kind of wonderful, too. -Barbara Streisand
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person-Mignon McLaughlin
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. -Audrey Hepburn
Treasure the one who thinks of you when all others are thinking of themselves. -James Gramm
Remember that love is what you've been through with somebody. -James Thurber
A friend walks in when the whole world walks out. -Walter Winchell
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. -Oprah Winfrey
Treasure the one who thinks of you when all others are thinking of themselves. -James Gramm
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. -J. Collins
Remember, you must be present to win.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell
To love and to have been loved is the greatest gift of all.
Begin right where you are. -Pema Chodrun
Success is a journey, not a destination. -Ben Sweetland
If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. -Socrates
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. -Robert Byrne
To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. Baruch Spinoza
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. -William Shakespeare
Friendship is not to be with our friends when they are right, it is to be with them even when they are wrong.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind over-tasked. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom! -J. G. Ballard
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. -Aristotle
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. Calvin (from the illustrious duo Calvin and Hobbes)
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. -Albert Einstein
Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has. -Hubert Humphrey
Keep walking and keep smiling. -Tiny Tim
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. -Janis Joplin
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. -Will Rogers
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Hours fly, flowers die, new days, new ways pass by, love stays. -Katrina's Sun Dial, by Henry Van Dyke.
I work better under pressure, without it I just don't see the point.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo
To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. Heinrich Heine
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. F.P. Jones
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. -Jean Paul Richter
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. Will Rogers
Humor is a universal language. Joel Goodman
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. Heisenberg
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. James Thurber
Seven days without laughter makes one weak. Mort Walker