"Life is like a coin:
you can spend it any way you want,
but you can only spend it once."
...Anonymous

"Today a new sun rises for me:
everything lives, everything is animated,
everything seems to speak to me
of my passion, everything invites me
to cherish it."
...Anne de Lenclos

"One of the secrets of a happy life
is continuous small treats."
...Iris Murdoch

"Home is the place where we grumble
the most, but are loved the best."
...Anonymous

"I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
...Bill Cosby

"Women are blessed with a jewel of strength
that glows all the time."
...Judith Jamison

"Friendship is the golden thread
that ties the heart of all the world."
...John Evelyn

"Great opportunities come to those
who make the most of small ones."
...Anonymous

"Let the world know you as you are,
not as you think you should be."
...Fannie Brice

"The best way to find
your child's lost toy is to go barefoot."
...Anonymous

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round;
love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
...Franklin Jones

"Faith's moonbeams softly glisten upon
the best of life's most troubled sea."
...Frederick William Faber

"A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence."
...Anonymous

"I was always looking outside myself for strength
and confidence but it comes from within.
It is there all the time."
...Anna Freud

"No child is ever spoiled by too much attention."
...Dr. Bessie W. Blake

"The best way to make children good
is to make them happy."
...Oscar Wilde

"Life is an echo. What you send out,
you receive back. What you give, you get."
...Anonymous

"Blessed is the influence of
one true loving soul of another."
...George Eliot

"Children reinvent your world for you."
...Susan Sarandon

"You're never too old to become younger."
...Mae West

"You already possess all that you need
to be genuinely happy."
...Oprah Winfrey

"If you can't see straight ahead,
it's because you're about to turn the corner."
...Myrtle Reed

"I will honor Christmas in my heart
and try to keep it all the year."
...Charles Dickens

"Every child born into the world
is a new thought of God."
...Kate Douglas Wiggin

"Life is a promise. Fulfill it."
...Mother Teresa

"The turbulent aftermath of a
brutal embrace is the nightmare..."
...Laverne

Sanity
"Eagles never display wonder,
or say "'Tis marvel of the age."
For in nature we the children
Only hold the sane as strange."
...Kahlil Gibran

"Pain is an unseen and powerful hand
that breaks the skin of the stone
in order to extract the pulp."
...Kahlil Gibran

Destiny
"Man possesses a destiny
Which impels his thoughts and
Actions and words, and that not
Sufficing, directs his footsteps to
A place of unwilling abode."
...Kahlil Gibran

"Madness is the first step towards unselfishness.
Be mad and tell us what is behind
the veil of 'sanity'.
The purpose of life is to bring us closer
to those secrets, and madness is the only means."
...Kahlil Gibran

"A chemist who can extract from
his heart's element, compassion, respect,
longing, patience, regret, surprise,
and forgiveness and compound them into one
can create that atom which is called love."
…Kahlil Gihran

"Life without a friend is death without a witness."
…Spanish Proverb

"It is the heart that makes a man rich.
He is rich according to what he is,
not according to what he has."
…Henry Ward Beecher

"Maturity begins to grow when you can
sense your concern for others
outweighing your concern for yourself."
…John MacNoughton

"Love is a wonderful thing.
You never have to take it away
from one person to give it to another.
There's always more than enough to go around."
…Pamela J. deRoy

"What you keep to yourself you lose,
what you give away, you keep forever."
…Axel Munthe

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority."
…Ralph W. Sackman

"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part
of the business of life."
…Samuel Johnson

"You have not lived a perfect day,
even though you have earned your money,
unless you have done something for someone
who will never be able to repay you."
…Ruth Smeltzer

"The capacity to care is the thing
that gives life its deepest meaning and significance."
…Pablo Casals

"When you give of yourself,
you receive more than you give."
…Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"When deeds speak, words are nothing."
--African Proverb

"It is raining still;
maybe it is not one of those showers
that is here one minute and gone the next,
as I had so boldly assumed.
Maybe none of them are.
After all, life in itself is a chain of rainy days.
But there are times when not all of us have
umbrellas to walk under. Those are the times
when we need people who are willing
to lend their umbrellas to a wet stranger
on a rainy day.
I think I'll go for a walk with my umbrella."
…Sun-Young Park

"They say a person needs just these things
to be truly happy in this world:
someone to love, something to do,
and something to hope for."
…Tom Bodett

"Blessed are those that can give
without remembering and take without forgetting."
…Elizabeth Bibesco

"Making the decision to have a child -
it's momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart
go walking around outside your body."
…Elizabeth Stone

"You never know when you are making a memory."
…Rickie Lee Jones

"A child needs your love most
when she deserves it the least."
…Anonymous

"Everything can be taken from a man
but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms -
to choose one's own way."
…Viktor Frankl

"Life is eternal; and love is immortal;
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."
…Anonymous

"Pain and suffering is inevitable,
being miserable is optional."
…Art Clanin

"What we steadily, consciously,
habitually think we are, that we tend to become."
…Ann Landers

"if we did all the things we were capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves."
…Thomas Edison

"The human spirit cannot be paralyzed.
If you are breathing, you can dream."
…Mike Brown

"Success is a state of mind."
…Joyce Brothers

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
…Friedrich Nietzsche

"The universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought with it
its own peculiar lesson.
The mountain teaches stability and grandeur;
the ocean immensity and change.
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds,
stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers
and crystal snowflakes -
every form of animate or inanimate existence,
leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Even the bee and the ant
have brought their little lessons
of industry and economy."
…Orison Swett Marden

"The worst prison would be a closed heart."
…Pope John Paul II

First I was dying
to finish high school and start college.
And then I was dying
to finish college and start working.
And then I was dying
to marry and have children.
And then I was dying
for my children to grow old enough
for school so I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying;
And suddenly;

I realize I forgot to live.

Anonymous

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