Love
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
- Mangnu Hirschfield
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.
- Clare Boothe Luce
The heart that loves is always young.
- Greek Proverb
Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.
- Greg Evans
Love begins at home, and is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a promise,
Love is a souvenir,
Once given, never forgotten,
Never let it disappear.
- John Lennon
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- Dalai Lama
Immature love says ‘I love you because I need you.’
Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
- Erich Fromm
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Dorothy Franken
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness; the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
- E.E. Cummings
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
- Proverbs
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company
he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for the one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
- George Jean Nathan
Doubt that the stars are fire
Doubt that the sun doth shine
Doubt that truth be a liar
But never doubt that I love.
- Shakespeare
Love at first sight is easy to understand;
it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
- Amy Bloom
To love a woman is to know a woman's wants and her needs without her ever saying a word.
- A. Jenkins
The best relationship is one which your love for each other exceeds your need for one another.
- Dalai Lama
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8
All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love.
- Emily Dickinson
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
- George Sand
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
- Goethe
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
- Herman Hesse
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
- William E. Gladstone
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
- Lily Tomlin
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert Heinlein
I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you
- Roy Croft
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
- Rumi
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
- Saint Augustine
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
- Helen Rowland
The heart rarely listens to reason.
- Unknown
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
- Michael Leunig
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Marriage
Your dips and falls do not confound me half as much as your heights astound me.
- Unknown
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
- George Jean Nathan
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
- Oscar Wilde
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
- Albert Einstein
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
- Tom Mullen
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
- Barnett Brickner
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
- Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
- Andre Maurois
Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
- Unknown
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
- Harold Nicolson
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world
- Erica Jong
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
- Louis K. Anspacher
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
- Sir Walter Raleigh
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Friendship
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
- Proverbs
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
- Marcus Aurelius
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
Love risks degenerating into obsession,
friendship is never anything but sharing.
- Elie Wiesel
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honouring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.
- Unknown
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
-Joseph Addison
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery,
by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
- Unknown
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tennessee Williams
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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Family & Home
Love begins at home, and is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave,
And grow old wanting to get back to.
- John Ed Pearce
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
- Anthony Brandt
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
- Alex Haley
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
- Marcelene Cox
Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.
- Unknown
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
- Shirley Abbott
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
- Evan Esar
The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.
- Kendall Hailey
In time of test, family is best.
- Burmese Proverb
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
- George Moore
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
- Brad Henry
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
- Sidonie Gruenberg
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
- Alex Haley
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
- Jim Rohn
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Pets & Animals
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
he will not bite you; that is the principal
difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
- Roger Caras
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
- Josh Billings
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A lovely horse is always an experience...It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
- Beryl Markham
My goal is to someday be the person my dog thinks I am
- Unknown
When I hear tell of the character and the
loyalty and devotion of dogs, I remain
unmoved. All of my dogs have been
scamps and thieves and troublemakers,
and I’ve adored them all.
- Helen Hayes
Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.
- Cynthia Heimel
What counts is not
necessarily the size of
the dog in the fight,
but the size of the
fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world.
- Josephine Demott Robinson
Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.
- Unknown
Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?
- Karen Brademeyer
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them.
They do not always care enough to do anything about it.
- Winifred Carriere
The horses paw and prance and neigh,
Fillies and colts like kittens play,
And dance and toss their rippled manes
Shining and soft as silken skeins
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated
- Mahatma Gandhi
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
- George Orwell
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you,
but he will make a fool of himself too.
- Samuel Butler
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
- Rose F. Kennedy
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
- Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Happiness is a warm puppy.
- Charles M. Schulz
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements
of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.
- Sharon Ralls Lemon
Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other.
- Stephen Baker
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden,
where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
- Milan Kundera
If I tried to tell you how much I love my cats, you wouldn't believe me -
unless your heart is also meow-shaped and covered in stray fur.
- Lexie Saige
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car,
in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
- Dave Barry
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
- Jean Cocteau
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them.
They do not always care enough to do anything about it.
- Winifred Carriere
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe.
We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps.
It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
- Roger Caras
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.
For me they are the role model for being alive.
- Gilda Radner
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word.
And has filed it for reference.
- Charlotte Gray
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
- Rita Rudner
If purring could be encapsulated, it'd be the most powerful anti-depressant on the pharmaceutical market.
- Alexis F. Hope
A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets:
The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse.
- C.J.J. Mullen
Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around,
then close them again for the better part of their lives.
- Stephen Baker
The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal...its also the reason they hate birds.
- KC Buffington
Labradors [are] lousy watchdogs. They usually bark when there is a stranger about,
but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning.
- Norman Strung
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
- Ellen Perry Berkeley
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
- Christopher Morley
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
- Pam Brown
The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Dance & Music
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts,
because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
- Havelock Ellis
Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
- James Duffy
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
- Martha Graham
Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest,
heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.
- Unknown
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.
- Victor Hugo
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
- D.H. Lawrence
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
- Sergei Rachmaninov
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
- Unknown
Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
- John Philip Sousa
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
- Albert Einstein
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.
- Edwin Denby
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
- Japanese Proverb
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
- Vicki Baum
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
- Charles Baudelaire
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Anderson
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
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Religion, Spirituality, Faith
Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.
- Psalm 37:4, The Holy Bible
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
- Wayne Dyer
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
- Buddha
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- Buddha
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky
- Buddha
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't,
than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
- Albert Camus
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun,
how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Birthdays
Why doesn’t life get easier when you’re going downhill?
- Unknown
Would you like to know a technique for staying perpetually young? …Lying.
- Unknown
Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy.
Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
- Dorothy Thompson
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Jack Benny
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
- Larry Lorenzoni
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
- Georges Clemenceau
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
- Unknown
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
- Ogden Nash
Sing a song of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year.
- Unknown
The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
- H. V. Prochnow
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In Sympathy/Loss
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the stars that shine at night.
Please stand not at my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die.
- Mary Frye
Words are poor things when we suffer the loss of a loved one.
Still, I want to convey my desire, however inadequate, to offer consolation.
- Unknown
The risk of love is loss,
and the price of loss is grief -
But the pain of grief
Is only a shadow
When compared with the pain
Of never risking love.
- Hilary Stanton Zunin
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
- Harlan Ellison
You can shed tears that she is gone,
or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,
or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,
or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her only that she is gone,
or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind,
be empty and turn your back.
Or you can do what she'd want:
smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
- David Harkins
Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening!
- Sir Walter Scott
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
In pain a new time is born.
- Adelbert Von Chamisso
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation.
For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
- Albert Einstein
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Life
To change one's life:
1) Start immediately
2) Do it flamboyantly
3) No exceptions
- William James
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
- Leo Buscaglia
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
- David Starr Jordan
May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, The foresight to know where you are going, And the insight to know when you have gone too far.
- Irish Blessing
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
- Kahlil Gibran
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future
- Unknown
Sometimes not getting what you want is an amazing stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Unknown
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
- Proverbs
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
- Samuel Johnson
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
- Unknown
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
- Douglas H. Everett
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
- Harold B. Melchart
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
- Diane Ackerman
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
- Sir Walter Scott
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Spend some amount of time alone every day.
- Dalai Lama
Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- Sarah Bernhardt
Imagination is everything. It is the preview
of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
In pain a new time is born.
- Adelbert Von Chamisso
I take a simple view of living.
It is to keep your eyes open
and get on with it.
- Sir Laurence Olivier
He who has "why" to live for
can bear almost any "how."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
- W.M. Lewis
When you lose, do not lose the lesson.
- Dalai Lama
When people show you who they are, believe them.
– Maya Angelou
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Travel
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
– Mark Twain
Two roads diverged in a wood and I,
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
- Saint Augustine
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- G. K. Chesterton
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
- George Moore
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
- Maya Angelou
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
- Martin Buber
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
- Rosalia de Castro
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
- Henry Emerson Fosdick
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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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Nature
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
- Harold B. Melchart
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
- John Muir
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
- John Muir
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin
- William Shakespeare
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Success & Leadership
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
Always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Adversity is the first path to truth
- Lord Byron
He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light
- Unknown
Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
- Caroline Schoeder
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
- Theodore Rubin
Allow motion to equal emotion.
- Elbert Hubbard
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don’t stand a chance against it.
- Joan Vinge
Keep away from small 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.
- Mark Twain
Do not attempt to teach that which you yourself have not yet mastered
- Maria Taddeo
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
-Morris Mandel
Greater dooms win greater destinies
- Heraclitus
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
- Jalal-Uddin Rumi
I've learned...that opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
- Andy Rooney
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
- Nelson Mandela
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
- Woodrow T. Wilson
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing,
you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer, Herman Cain
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
- Winston Churchill
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
- James Ling
Most of our obstacles
would melt away if,
instead of cowering
before them, we should
make up our minds
to walk boldly
through them
- Orison Swett Marden
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence...
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent
- Calvin Coolidge
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities.
They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
- John Maxwell
Do not let what you cannot do interfere
with what you can do
- John Wooden
Only those who dare to fail greatly
can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success, start thinking
of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
- Proverbs
When you lose, do not lose the lesson.
- Dalai Lama
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
- Orison Swett Marden
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
- Zig Ziglar
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
- James Allen
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through”
- Sir Walter Scott
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Patriotism & Freedom
Those who would sacrifice liberty in the name of safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of the citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
- Patrick Henry
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
- Walter Cronkite
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Miscellaneous
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
- David P. Gardner
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
- Wayne Dyer
Unless you try to do something beyond
what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ronald E. Osborn
Conformity is the jailer of freedom
and the enemy of growth
- John F. Kennedy
Boredom. The desire for desires.
- Leo Tolstoy
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
- Proverbs
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
- Wayne Dyer
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future
- Unknown
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
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
- Samuel Johnson
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
- Oscar Wilde
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A sound head, an honest heart, and a humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity
- Sir Walter Scott
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good;
but that which is good is always beautiful.
- Ninon De L'Enclos
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
- Lord Byron
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
- Henry Emerson Fosdick
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
- Wendell Johnson
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
- Jeremy Irons
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
Always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
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