"The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath." - Alberto Santos-Dumont

"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." - William H. Sheldon

"A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange." - Author Unknown

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” - Marcel Pagnol

"Don't worry about the people in your past. There's a reason they didn't make it to your future." - Author Unknown

"It's never too late to be who you might have been." - George Eliot

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old." - James A. Garfield

"A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married." - H.L. Mencken

"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." - Ogden Nash

"If you found a wonderful man, who helps balance your whole world... who isn't perfect, but is perfect for you... who works hard & would do anything for you... who makes you laugh... who is your best friend... who you want to grow old with... and who you are thankful for every day... then..." - Sharon Collins

"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences." - Dave Meurer

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him first just to find her" - Maya Angelou

"Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know My hand and My might; And they shall know that My name is ..." - Jeremiah 16:21

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." - Matthew 6:33

"Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world." - Thomas Guthrie

"We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to." - Randy Pausch

"If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If I got three more words, I'd add, All the Time." - Randy Pausch

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them." - Lawana Blackwell

"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'" - Conan O'Brien

"There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream." - Archibald MacLeish

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so 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

"I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid." - Sara Zarr

"When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over." - Sarah Addison Allen

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it." - George Burns

"Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement." - Colby Dorr Dam

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius

"There shall not be found among you ... one who practices witchcraft ... or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells ... For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD." - Deuteronomy 18:9-14

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch

"Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it." - Julie Andrews

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind." - Cicero