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25 of the Most Inspirational Quotes

. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. ~Ralph Marston

2. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ~John F. Kennedy

3. What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~Henry David Thoreau

4. To be a good loser is to learn how to win. ~Carl Sandburg

5. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

6. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ~Thomas Jefferson

7. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford

inspirational quotes8. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

9. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ~Charles De Gaulle

10. True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. ~John W. Gardner

11. We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. ~Orison Swett Marden

12. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ~Henry David Thoreau

13. Wherever you are – be all there. ~Jim Elliot

14. Who seeks shall find. ~Sophocles

15. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. ~Gordon B. Hinckley

16. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~C. S. Lewis

17. You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. ~Ted Turner

18. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~Henry Ford

19. You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. ~Flip Wilson

20. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

21. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ~George S. Patton

22. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. ~Anonymous

23. Excellence is to do a common thing, in an uncommon way. ~Booker T. Washington

24. Do not let what you can not do, interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden

25. One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson

Earth Day Quotes

Earth Day QuotesToday we celebrate Earth Day. Let’s do it in our own way, sharing Earth Day Quotes.

Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~A Chieftan from Nigeria

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben

I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987

For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it’s taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn’t reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says – go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. ~David Brin

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time. ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values…. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader’s Digest, July 1972

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw

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

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. ~George Carlin

Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978

It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here? ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. ~Brooke Medicine Eagle

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~William Shakespeare

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb

Quotes to Inspire

Let me show you a huge collection of Quotes to Inspire. Please take time and read all of them, select your favorite, and share with all your friends. Be happy! :)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. . . . Explore. Dream.” – Mark Twain

“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.” – Nelson Mandela

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali

“The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.” – Erving Goffman

“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would be.” – Nelson Mandela

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” – Doris Mortman

“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.” – Miguel De Cervantes

“To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce

”Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” –
Carl Bard

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

Quotes to Inspire”Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” – Albert Schweitzer

”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.

”Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” – Henry David Thoreau

”The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.” – Sir James M. Barrie

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” – Chinese Proverb

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese

”The journey of discovery begins not with new vistas but with having new eyes with which to behold them.” – Marcel Proust

”The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” – Linus Pauling

“Tell me I’ll forget, show me, I may remember, but involve me and I’ll understand. – Chinese Proverb

”Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi

”The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” – Nelson Mandela

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” – Agnes Repplier

“If you put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” – Anonymous

“The definition of a bore: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” – Ambrose Bierce

”To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” – Johann von Goethe

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” – Soren Kierkegaard

”Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it “ – Henry David Thoreau

“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran

”Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung

”Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

”Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

”I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

”Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

”The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

Short Love Quotes

After a great piece of Short Tattoo Quotes, let me share with you some Short Love Quotes. Please enjoy, share, and tell us what’s your favorite from this list.

“Love makes time pass; time makes love pass” – French Proverb

“It is not love, but lack of love which is blind” – Glenway Wescott

“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity” – George Bernard Shaw

“The hottest love has the coldest end” – Socrates

“Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate” – Unknown

“He who is not impatient is not in love” – Italian Proverb

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder” – William Shakespeare

“Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener” – Pauline Thomason

“Better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all” – Hemmingway

“The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most” – Kati

Short Love Quotes“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile” – Elizabeth Browning

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left” – Marilyn Monroe

“Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end” – Ancient Proverbs

“Live the life you’ve dreamed” – Henry David Thoreau

“Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful” – Unknown

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear” – John Lennon

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them” – Mother Teresa

“I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you” – Roy Croft

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world” – Heather Cortez

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime” – Bette Davis

“If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go” – Unknown

“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams” – Dr. Seuss

“The best thing about me is you” – Shannon Crown

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death” – Thomas Mann

Sad Quotes about Life

Let me share with you some wonderful Sad Quotes about Life for more inspiration.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. – Henry David Thoreau

The world is perfect. It’s a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives. – Joseph Campbell

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight. – Rabindranath Tagore

Sad Quotes about LifeAny fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin

The word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Gustav Jung

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. – Publilius Syrus

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. – Carl Jung

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. – William Shakespeare

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, “It might have been”. – John Greenleaf Whittier

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

Follow your Dreams Quotes

Did you get the piece of motivation for today? No? Let me share with you some cool Follow Your Dreams Quotes :)

First, say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do. – Epictetus

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. – Jean Paul Richter

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source. – Publilius Syrus

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful. – Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. – Victor Hugo

Every man believes he has a greater possibility. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. – William Shakespeare

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. – St. Augustine

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. – Henry David Thoreau

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. – Frederick Schiller

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. – Karl von Clausewitz

We must dare to think “unthinkable” thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not fear the voice of dissent. – J. William Fulbright

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen. – Herodotus

We are all of us made more graceful by the inward presence of what we believe to be a generous purpose; our actions move to a hidden music — ‘a melody that’s sweetly pitched in tune.’ – George Eliot

Famous People Quotes #6

“The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.” – Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.” – Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” – Seneca (3BC – 65AD)

“Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?” – Bumper Sticker

“God, please save me from your followers!” – Bumper Sticker

“Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches.” – The Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“Luck is the residue of design.” – Branch Rickey – former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.” – Mel Brooks

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” – Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

“Wit is educated insolence.” – Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t” – Erica Jong (1942-)

“Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.” – Erica Jong (1942-)

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou (1928-)

“Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.” – Gore Vidal

“Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.” – Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.” – Guy Davenport

“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Famous Quotes About Life

“May you live all the days of your life!” – Jonathan Swift

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – Earl Nightingale

“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” – Tom Blandi

“Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.” – Katherine Anne Porter

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson

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

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.” – John F. Kennedy

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” – Sidney Madwed

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake” – Henry David Thoreau

Love Quotes

Anyone here yelled for a great article of love quotes? Here it is, my friends. Some wonderful love quotes special selected for you and your girlfriend (or boyfriend).

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones

Where there is love there is life. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. – Pablo Picasso

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. – Oscar Wilde

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough. – Ann Landers

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. – Hoosier Farmer

Love is a language spoken by everyone, but understood only by a heart. – Shirley Rindani

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss

Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Jeanne Moreau

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health has vanished. – Og Mandingo

There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

It is love that makes the impossible possible. – Indian Proverb

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. – Virgil

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert Heinlein

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give — which is everything – Anonymous

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I’ve learned … that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them. – Andy Rooney

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Roy Croft

The best thing about me is you. – Shannon Crown

I can’t say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath. – Elvis Costello

I miss you a little, I guess you could say, a little too much, a little too often, and a little more each day. – Anonymous

Love is not blind, it sees but it doesn’t mind. – Rizi Jane Baldon

Love sees roses without thorns. – German Proverb

Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. – Kay Knudsen

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together. – Brian Andres

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Inspirational Quotes

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. —Henry Ford

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. — Stephen Covey

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Ghandi

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. —Mother Teresa

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. — Anonymous

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

Fall seven times, stand up eight. — Japanese proverb

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. — Joshua J. Marine

It is never too late to be what we might have been. — George Eliot

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. — William M. Thackeray

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. — Oscar Wilde

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright

This, too, shall pass. — Jewish proverb

The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. —Henry David Thoreau

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. — Anna Quindlen

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief. — Egyptian Proverb

Some men see things the way they are and ask, “Why?” I dream things that never were, and ask “Why not?” — George Bernard Shaw

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. — Chinese Proverb

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. — Edgar Allan Poe

My friends are my estate. — Emily Dickinson

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. — Buddha