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"Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't..."

— Mother Teresa

"I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives."

— Nadia Comaneci

"One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now."

— Paulo Coelho

"Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give."

— Tom Hiddleston

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

— Nora Ephron

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

— Maimonides

"My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit o..."

— Tina Turner

"Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it."

— Maya Angelou

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal."

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is l..."

— Baltasar Gracian

"You are enough just as you are."

— Meghan Markle

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

— Berthold Auerbach

"Smile, for it can lift a saddened heart. Smile, for it can light the darkest day. Smile, for it can warm the coldest hea..."

— David Vaughn Stone

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer an..."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."

— Bill Watterson

"If you think you can do it, you can."

— John Burroughs

"A life full of enthusiasm, hope and contributions through one's own talent is a life well lived."

— Kimberly Day

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

— Bill Cosby

"Choose your love, Love your choice."

— Thomas S. Monson

"Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything."

— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, s..."

— Jesse Owens

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles..."

— Buddha

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around ..."

— Morrie Schwartz

"May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home. May good and faithful friends be yours wherever you..."

— Irish Proverb

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

— Henry David Thoreau

"Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, th..."

— Rashida Jones

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd."

— Rumi

"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart."

— Phil Jackson

"The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recogn..."

— Wayne Dyer

"Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that infl..."

— Marianne Williamson

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

— Nelson Mandela

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

— Lao Tzu

"Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward."

— Drew Houston

"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to..."

— Jim Rohn

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."

— Dalai Lama

"Every failure is a step to success."

— William Whewell

"What force is more potent than love?"

— Igor Stravinsky

"In every living thing there is the desire for love."

— D. H. Lawrence

"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity your..."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard."

— Nicholas Sparks

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

— Theodore Hesburgh

"There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person."

— Joyce Meyer

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

— Seneca

"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."

— Henry Ford

"Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no..."

— Carly Patterson

"It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is..."

— Walter Anderson

"You have every right to a beautiful life."

— Selena Gomez

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."

— John Lennon

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

— Rudyard Kipling

"Love is friendship set on fire."

— Jeremy Taylor

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run."

— Wendelin Van Draanen

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and cont..."

— Buddha

"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them."

— William Arthur Ward

"The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible."

— Demi Lovato

"Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the ..."

— Menachem Begin

"No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else ca..."

— John O'Donohue

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."

— Satchel Paig

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

— Roy T. Bennett

"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."

— Peace Pilgrim

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing."

— Torquato Tasso

"Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't av..."

— Mhairi McFarlane

"One chance is all you need."

— Jesse Owens

"If you're trying to achieve, there will be road blocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have ..."

— Michael Jordan

"Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude."

— Ralph Marston

"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people."

— Alexis Carrel

"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."

— Richard Bach

"Love is a great beautifier."

— Louisa May Alcott

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."

— Thomas J. Watson

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

— Napoleon Hill

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

— Henry David Thoreau

"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handl..."

— William J. Clinton

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

— Maya Angelou

"The most healthy thing is to be true to your own self… but also, that you have a right to express what you see and wha..."

— Alice Walker

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

— Albert Einstein

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we d..."

— Alexander Graham Bell

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."

— Francesco Guicciardini

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

— George Eliot

"To me, life is a gift, and it's a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift it is to be alive ..."

— Tony Bennett

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

— Audrey Hepburn

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

— John Ruskin

"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life."

— Yoko Ono

"With our love, we could save the world."

— George Harrison

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

— Thomas Jefferson

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to..."

— Steve Maraboli

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

— Kahlil Gibran

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It..."

— Audrey Hepburn

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."

— Robert Quillen

"You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most speci..."

— Brad Garrett

"You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass."

— Leon Brown

"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions."

— Pema Chodron

"When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard wor..."

— Nicholas Sparks

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

— Aeschylus

"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."

— Robert Schuller

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passio..."

— Harriet Tubman

"Celebrate yourself... and stay positive!"

— Khoudia Diop

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything aro..."

— Paulo Coelho

"It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always."

— Oprah Winfrey

"If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life."

— Ciara

"Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today."

— James Dean

"Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years..."

— Colleen Hoover

"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down."

— Charlie Chaplin

"Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far eno..."

— David Packard

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice bei..."

— Mary Tyler Moore

"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everyth..."

— Maya Angelou

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

— John Keats

"What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

— Mother Teresa

"The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving."

— Edwin Louis Cole

"The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to..."

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

— Josh Billings

"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you."

— George Whitefield

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

— Jack Canfield

"Great leaders create more leaders, not followers."

— Roy T. Bennett

"Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to believe in our own ability, to be a little more ambitious..."

— Reese Witherspoon

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."

— John Irving

"Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful."

— Zoe Kravitz

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

— Oprah Winfrey

"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”"

— George Bernard Shaw

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make ..."

— Helena Christensen

"A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."

— Tyra Banks

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste..."

— The Dalai Lama

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

— Leo Buscaglia

"If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas."

— Steve Maraboli

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

— Walt Whitman

"No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better ..."

— Madonna

"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

— Helen Keller

"I cannot express how important it is to believe that taking one tiny—and possibly very uncomfortable—step at a time ..."

— Tig Nataro

"Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality...."

— Sterling K. Brown

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

— André Gide

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

— John Wooden

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Those who look outside, dream. Those who looks inside,..."

— Carl Gustav Jung

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."

— William S. Burroughs

"Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have."

— Cicely Tyson

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it."

— Eileen Caddy

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

— Michael Altshuler

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

— Maya Angelou

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."

— Albert Einstein

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

— Michael Jordan

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

— Henry Ford

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

— Farrah Gray

"Kindness is one thing you can’t give away. It always comes back."

— George Skolsky

"You are here for a purpose. There is no duplicate of you in the whole wide world. There never has been, there never will..."

— Lou Austin

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."

— Thomas Carlyle

"Set out each day believing in your dreams. Know without a doubt that you were made for amazing things."

— Josh Hinds

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

— Hazrat Khan

"Being happy never goes out of style."

— Lilly Pulitzer

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

— Queen Elizabeth

"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."

— Thornton Wilder

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

— Saint Augustine

"The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, th..."

— Alek Wek

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."

— Eminem

"Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come..."

— Dwayne Johnson

"The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek."

— Celestine Chua

"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."

— Elizabeth Kenny

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will be at peace."

— Bob Marley

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they..."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse."

— Jen Sincero

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."

— Max Muller

"You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not."

— Chris Colfer

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

— Nido Qubein

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determ..."

— Lou Holtz

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, h..."

— Germany Kent

"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

— A.A. Milne

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

— Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

— Helen Keller (1880–1968)

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."

— Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

— Lao Tzu

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

— Confucius (551–479 BCE)

"The time is always right to do what is right."

— Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

— Marie Curie (1867–1934)

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how yo..."

— Maya Angelou

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

— Steve Jobs (1955–2011)

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

— Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)