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“A life without love is like a year without summer.” ~ Swedish proverb

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” ~ Mark Twain

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” ~ Walter Elias “Walt” Disney

“Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.” ~ Tarthang Tulku

“And remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” ~ E.K. Brough

“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.” ~ Katherine Hepburn

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“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

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Tao Tzu

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” ~ William Jennings Bryan

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung

“Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.” ~ Aldous Huxley

“Faith is like a toothbrush. Every man should have one and use it regularly, but he shouldn’t try to use someone else’s.” ~ J.G. Stipe

“Feelings are everywhere—be gentle.” ~ J. Masai

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.” ~Henry David Thoreau

“He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.” ~ Confucius

“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.” ~ Lao Tsu

“Hope doesn’t come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It’s simply a choice to take action.” ~ Anna Lappe

“How will you ever know if you can paint that picture, run that business, sell that vacuum cleaner, earn that degree, hold that office, make that speech, win that game, marry that girl, write that book, bake that soufflé, build that house - unless you try it!” ~ Richard M. DeVos

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Anne Frank

“I don’t believe in an afterlife. In theory an afterlife is supposed to keep you from sin, but people use it as an excuse to f*ck up while they’re still in this life. I figure this life is all I get, so I’d better make the best of it.” ~ Kevin Bacon (MAXIM | September 2007)

“I hated every minute of the training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” ~ Muhammad Ali

“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “thank you,” that would suffice.” ~ Meister Eckhart

“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” ~ Katharine Hepburn

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” ~ Peace Pilgrim

“If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.” ~ Ecclesiastes 11:4

“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?” ~ Stephen Levine

“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” ~ Joseph Addison

“Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.” ~ Samuel Johnson

“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou has attained it—thou art a fool.” ~ The Talmud

“It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.” ~ Socrates

“It is not enough to be busy. The question is, what are we busy about?” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” ~ Alan Cohen

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” ~ Marianne Williamson

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.” ~ Chinese proverb

“Keep on asking and it will be given to you; keep on seeking and you will find….” ~ Matthew 7:7

“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” ~ Mark Twain

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.” ~ Charlotte Bronte

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” ~ Danny Kaye

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” ~ Charlie Chaplin

“Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.” ~ John Wayne

“Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.” ~ Margaret Mitchell

“Life is what you make it. Always has been. Always will be.” ~ Grandma Moses

“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” ~ Rose Kennedy

“Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.” ~ Sir William Osler

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing that it is not fish that they are after.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe

“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.” ~ Richard Bach

“Once all struggles are grasped, miracles are possible.” ~ Mao Tse-tung

“Once sent out, a word takes wing irrevocably.” ~ Horace

“One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.” ~ Proverbs 11:24

“One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.” ~ C.G. Jung

“One of the sanest, surest and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Overcome anger by non-anger, overcome evil by good. Overcome the miser by giving, overcome the liar by truth.” ~ The Dhammapada

“Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

“Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.” ~ Osho

“Somebody like you doesn’t come along that often… in fact, there has never been anyone like you and there never will be. You’re an ANGEL among us. Someone, whose eyes see what no others will ever see, whose ears hear what no others will ever hear, and whose perspective and feelings will never, ever be duplicated. Without YOU, the Universe, and all that it is, would sadly be less than it is.” ~ Michael Dooley

“The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at somebody else, but you’re the one who gets burned.” ~ Buddha

“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.” ~ Henry Ford

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.” ~ Ben Stein

“The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.” ~ Pablo Casals

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elisabeth Kübler Ross

“The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.” ~ Jesse Jackson

“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from and explosion in a print shop.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust

“There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.” ~ Elisabeth Kübler Ross

“There are only two ways to live your life…one is as though nothing is a miracle, and the other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” ~ Ben William

“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ~ Epictetus

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” ~ Anne Frank

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” ~ The Dalai Lama

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” ~ Rachel Carson

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give of one’s self; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — This is to have succeeded.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.” ~ William Henry Channing

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.” ~ Confucius

“Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.” ~ Ernest Bevin

“Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” ~ Henry Van Dyke

“We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe most, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.” ~ Shakti Gawain

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.” ~ William Osler

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” ~ Buddha

“We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.” ~ The Talmud

“We have the tool of thought within us to create a thousand joys or a thousand ills.” ~ James Allen

“What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” ~ Victor Hugo

“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.” ~Thaddeus Golas

“What lies BEHIND us and what lies BEFORE us Are small matters compared to what lies WITHIN us” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself.” ~ Louis Nizer

“When I think about my life, and my blessings, great and small, I know the things that matter most aren’t really ‘things’ at all.” ~ Unknown

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it–this is knowledge.” ~ Confucius

“Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?” ~ Holly Near

“Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.” ~ Maxwell Maltz

“Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.” ~ Chinese proverb

“Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.” ~ Rudyard Kipling

“Words. So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~ Buddha

“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your own heart is your guru.” ~ Swami Shivananda