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Samuel Smiles QuotesHope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

Enthusiasm – the sustaining power of all great action.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

August Love Quotes

“Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.” ~ Unknown

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” ~Thomas Fuller

“Love is blind but after experiencing it for a long time you should become familiar with some particular spots.” ~Unknown

“Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.” ~Rusty Silvey

“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ~John Keats

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” ~Victor Hugo

“Love – a bare whisper that makes your body ignite with such uncontrollable curiosity.” ~Unknown

“Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.” ~ Stacie Cunningham

“I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” ~ Roy Croft

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.” ~ Robert Browning

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The closer I’m bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.” ~Robert G. Ingersoll

“Those who love deeply never grow old.” ~Anonymous

“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” ~Janos Arnay

Someone sent me this, “He is the only reason I get up in the mornings” ~Unknown

“There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”~Victor Robinson

“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is just a word until it is proven to you.” ~Unknown

love quotes“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~Mignon McLaughlin

“Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can’t have one without the other.” ~Sammy Cahn

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ~Plato

“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” ~Barbara De Angelis

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” ~Jane Austen

“You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.” ~Melanie Clark

“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

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” ~H. L. Mencken

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ~Erich Segal

“We can only learn to love by loving.” ~Iris Murdoch

“It is impossible to love and be wise.” ~ Francis Bacon

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” ~Ingrid Bergman

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ~Albert Einstein

“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” ~Ambrose Bierce

“Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” ~Erich Fromm

“That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.” ~Emily Dickinson

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” ~Amelia Burr

“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.” ~Euripides

10 Life Quotes

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.” — William W. Purkey

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” — Douglas Adams

life quotes“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” — André Gide

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin

“Finish every 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; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.” — Mother Teresa

Love Quotes

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Khalil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. – Maurice Maeterlinck

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

I’ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them. – Anonymous

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you. – Margaret Atwood

Parting is such sweet sorrow. – William Shakespeare

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Anonymous

If I hadn’t met you, I wouldn’t like you.
If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you.
If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will. – Anonymous

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it. – Anonymous

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is never good dwelling on good-byes … it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. – Elizabeth Bibesco

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

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

Cute Friendship Quotes

I almost forgot what great pleasure is to share cute friendship quotes, but now we can recover :)

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

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. – Jewish Saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. – Fr. Jerome Cummings

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. – Cindy Lew

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

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. – Swedish Proverb

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. – Abraham Lincoln

Hold a true friend with both your hands. – Nigerian Proverb

Friendship needs no words… – Dag Hammarskjold

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. – Apocrypha

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. – Anonymous

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. – Elbert Hubbard

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. – Baltasar Gracian

Friends are the sunshine of life. – John Hay

The best mirror is an old friend. – George Herbert

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. – Samuel Paterson

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. – Anonymous

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. – Pietro Aretino

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. – Hasidic Saying

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. – Claude Mermet

Count your age with friends but not with years. – Anonymous

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. – Lois L. Kaufman

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. – Hillaire Belloc

Leaving Quotes

“I remember what you told me before you went out on your own. Sometimes to keep it together, you’ve got to leave it alone.” – Unknown

“One day we’ll wave ‘hello’ and wish we’d never waved ‘goodbye.'” – Unknown

“I want to remember how you’ve made me laugh and sometimes cry, and I never want to forget how special and different you are and how you’ve touched my heart in a way that no one else could.” – Unknown

“I know that you didn’t mean it and I know that you think saying sorry will make it better, but that’s not how the world works. It’s an imperfect world and feelings just don’t go away that fast. So either you never really loved me or you’re just hiding it because you’re scared. Well let me tell you, hiding something will get you nowhere and lying sure as hell won’t make you happy so go ahead and leave me but in the end you will see your mistake and come back. But you know what? I won’t be here.” – Unknown

“Why am I holding onto this? I know there’ll be nothing more to us except you using me. I need to make myself strong. I can’t let you break me more then you already have.” – Drea

“Before you leave, promise me one thing – that you won’t forget what we had. Because it was special, I know it was. And if I could go back in time, you know I would go back to you.” – Unknown

“I made the choice to finally go because I can’t stand this pain. It’s time for my last tear to fall and me to smile again.” – Unknown

“I pity him because I get to walk away and be me, and he has to stay him ya know? And who wants to be him when you could be me?” – Sex and the City

“I sat there and stared at you. I just couldn’t understand how such an amazing person could be in my life. And then all of a sudden I got extremely scared. You kissed me, and told me not to worry, there was no way you’d ever leave me. I felt a sense of comfort. I believed you. That is, until you left.” – Joanne Golden

“No more crying. I can’t cry anymore. Don’t take my hand this time, just go please and don’t look back. Because I know if you did, I would come running back to you.” – Unknown

“No more loneliness and heartache, no more crying myself to sleep, no more wondering about tomorrow. Won’t you come back to me? Come back to me. Do I ever cross your mind anytime? Do you ever wake up reaching out for me? Do I ever cross your mind anytime? I miss you..” – Brian McKnight, ‘Anytime’

“All I ever wanted was to make you happy. I can only do that by stepping aside. I just have one favor to ask of you… remember me.” – Family Matters

“And so if I have to leave you, I want you to know that in the end, it wasn’t because I stopped caring, it’s because you stopped being a friend.” – Unknown

“The hardest mile I’ve ever walked was the one away from you.” – Unknown

“So maybe you were special, and maybe you were supposed to be the one, but then again maybe you were just like the rest of them, only you took my heart with you when you left.” – Unknown

“From the moment he said hello, I could see goodbye in his eyes.” – Roseanne

“How can I say goodbye to you without losing myself too?” – Lost North Star

“I love you enough to let you go, but do you love me enough to come back?” – Unknown

“You turned away from opportunities to sit and talk things through but now when I say I’m leaving you, you have so much to prove.” –Brandy, Tomorrow

“So long to all my pain. Good night to my heartache. Goodbye sorrow. I won’t cry no more. I’m leaving tomorrow.” –Brandy, ‘Tomorrow’

“You couldn’t even say I’m sorry for all the hurt and pain you caused me. Now I am supposed to give my deepest sympathy? You see I had enough of cryin’ and I’m tired of all the lyin’. You see I refuse to let you take advantage of me, baby.” – Brandy, ‘Learn the Hard Way’

“It’s so hard to say goodbye to you. My heart knows the words, they just won’t pump up to my lips.” – Family Matters

“So, here I am again. ending yet another pathetic excuse for a relationship. And it always seems one things is always the same about it. I’m always the one who walks away from it all. Away from the person who always said he’d never let me go. Well, once again, I’m walking away… And once again, no one is stopping me.” – Unknown

“And every time I see you my heart falls to the floor and I want to stop you from walking away and I want to tell you everything, tell you how I feel, tell you that sometimes when you’re not even noticing, I look into your eyes, and when I do, it’s not my love for you I see, its my need.” – Unknown

“Sometimes what may be the best thing for you to do, sometimes that’s the hardest thing for you to do. And that’s real cause I know I love you, I know how I feel about you. But I also know that don’t make everything all right. And for that reason I gotta say goodbye.” – Jagged Edge, ‘Goodbye’

“Maybe I was just a stepping stone for you to get to that point in your life where you’d figure out what you wanted, or didn’t want. So to prove to you that I love you and all I want is for you to be happy, I’ll walk away.” – Unknown

“So kiss me hard ’cause this will be the last time that I let you. You will be back someday and this awkward kiss that tells of other people’s lips will be of service to keeping you away.” – dashboard confessional, “best deceptions”

“As you walk away I see the fire in your eyes and I can hear the laughter in your voice as you watch my heart break. And I’m frozen. I can’t find the words to tell you that I hate you. I can’t tell you how I wish you would just leave my life forever. And I can’t tell you how much I hope she hurts you. So instead I tell you I love you. Hoping that the fire in your eyes die down, and the laughter in your voice becomes tears in your eyes, and you turn around and unbreak my heart. Only to realize that wishes often dont come true, and hearts are more often then not, broken. And I stand there and watch you walk away.” – Unknown

“I think of a while ago, we might have had it all, I was so stupid then, you needed time to grow. But now just as things change, as well my feelings do. In time things rearrange and I’m so sick of chasing you.” – Blink182

“I feel safe around him, he’s like this great man in my life and he’s leaving.” – Sex and the City

“I can’t go any further down this love road and have my heart broken.” – Sex and the City

“I never thought saying two words would be so hard. I said them a thousand times, but it has never ever been so hard. That night as we stood in my drive way I didn’t want the night to end… I knew those words were coming but I didn’t wanna hear them. You said them then I said them too. I turned and walked away, tears in my eyes I will never forget that night I had to say good bye.” – Unknown

“Baby, one more thing before you go, in case you didn’t know, I wouldn’t trade you for the world.” – Weekend Excursion

“I wish there was something I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you, but I’d rather walk alone then chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.” – Ben Harper

“Goodbye is too good a word, babe, so I’ll just say fare thee well, I ain’t sayin you treated me unkind, you coulda done better but I don’t mind, you just kinda wasted my precious time, but don’t think twice it’s all right.” – Bob Dylan

“I always wanted to try for you..I’d have done anything and more. But now you’re so far out of reach. I’ve tried to hold on..but I just can’t anymore. I’m tired of trying for something that never get any better. I’m tired of the pain. So from now on we’ll live our lives apart from each other, and we’ll pretend we don’t remember everything we’ve shared. But I would’ve done anything for you..and I still would.” – Allison

“I feel like I am holding you back. Like you’re missing out on something else by hanging on with me. And I don’t want you to miss anything.” – Allison

“Love hurts. It takes strength to keep it going and right now, I just don’t have the strength or the will power. Please just try to understand.” – Michelle Burns

“I love you, I really do, and yet you still hurt me. But thats ok, I can walk away. I can let you leave because in the end, I’ll know you didnt leave because I wasnt pretty enough, or smart enough, or nice enough. You left me because you don’t care about me, because you’re scared, and because you cant make up your mind. I didn’t do a thing wrong, except maybe choose the wrong guy.” – Unknown

“I don’t get how you can just walk away from this. We’ve worked so hard to be together, we’ve broken every rule they could have given us, and now you’re just leaving… I thought I meant more to you than that.” – Michelle Burns

“I can’t write this thing. I have to answer one simple question, right? Who am I? But if I have to leave town and you and my life to figure that out, what does that say?” – Party of Five

“I know exactly who I am, and I’m just afraid to say it out loud… I love you, so much. I really do. But I’m 19, and in college, and for me that means trying stuff out, like making mistakes. But mistakes where I can take an incomplete if things aren’t working out, not mistakes where other people’s lives are riding on what I choose.” – Party of Five

“I live to like you and I can’t like you anymore. So when you get your heart splattered all over hell and you’re feeling really low and dirty, don’t run to me to help pull you back up because, maybe, for the first time in your life, I won’t be there.” – Pretty in Pink

“There are just certain people who aren’t meant to fit in your life no matter how much you want them to.” – Dawson’s Creek

“Life has been screaming at us, ‘It’s not meant to be.’ I wish I could stay, but the fact of the matter is that that wouldn’t be good for either one of us. I’ve been away from home for too long, and you… you’ve been trying to find where you wanna be. I’m slowing you down. You’ll find what you’re looking for faster without me.” – Party of Five

“I don’t want to make you feel terrible anymore.” – 90210

“Cuz if I don’t go right now, things are gonna change.” – Roswell

“You’re leaving. You’re finally walking out that door. And it hurts because there’s nothing I can do to change your mind.” – Joanne Golden

“Honey help me out of this mess. I’m a stranger to myself, but don’t reach for me, I’m too far away. I don’t wanna talk cause there’s nothing left to say. So my darling, give me your absence tonight. Take all of your sympathy and leave it outside. Cause there’s no kind of loving that can make this all right. I’m trying to find a place I belong and I suddenly feel like a different person.” – Fiona Apple

“So I’ll ask you, If I walked away right now, would you come after me?”- Unknown

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Sharing Quotes

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.” – Robert Louis Stevenso

“Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.” – Spider Robinson

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

“The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.” – Leonard Nimoy

“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.” – Seneca

“Giving is the highest expression of potency.” – Erich Fromm

“Shared sorrow is half sorrow.” – Danish Proverb

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” – M. Scott Peck

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Norman MacEwan

“Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.” – William Arthur Ward

“Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it’s only through sharing that friendships are born.” – Donna A. Favors