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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Be true to thyself.
- rephrasing of Shakespeare's famous quote
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
Live Your Dreams.
- Les Brown
Count Your Blessings.
- Og Mandino
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Love conquers all.
- Virgil
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Many hands make light work.
- Anonymous
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Anonymous
Know thyself.
- Socrates
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Courage doesn't always roar.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See.
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Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning
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Experience is the best teacher.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Actions speak louder than words.
- Anonymous
Be Here Now.
- Ram Dass
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness depends upon ourselves
- Aristotle
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
- Edmond Rostand
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
- David Wilkerson
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Persistence prevails when all else fails!
- Anonymous
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm Forbes
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Brontë
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
- Anonymous
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Stephenie Meyer
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
The brightest stars are those who shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
The lessons of the past provide the path to the future.
- Anonymous
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
You're only here for a short visit. So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 - 1890
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
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
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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