"Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect." - Kathryn L. Nelson

"Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill." - Jacob Braude

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." - Ralph Charell

"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week." - Alice Walker

"Laughter is a part of the human survival kit." - David Nathan

"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France

"Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given." - Deepak Chopra

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” - Isaac Newton

"Never Separate the Life you Live from the Words you Speak." - Paul Wellstone

"A gift of truth is the gift of love. " - David Icke

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength." - Betty Friedan

"The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold." - Glenn Doman

"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on." - Bill Cosby

"Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security." - Edmund Burke

"Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then." - John Wooden

"The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to you has been designed for spiritual growth." - Scott Peck

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

"Hurt me with the Truth, but never Comfort me with a Lie." - Author Unknown

"Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives." - Randy K. Milholland

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet." - Fran Lebowitz

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously ... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." - Jane Austen

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really." - Lenny Bruce

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense." - Thomas A. Edison

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion ... or you shall learn nothing." - Thomas H. Huxley

"Growing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn't have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is." - Victoria Moran

"Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good." - Saadi

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." - Ayn Rand

"And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised." - Ecclesiastes 1:13

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference." - Jane Goodall

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs

"Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose." - Steve Jobs

"You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other." - Stevie Ray Vaughan

"There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light." - Jodi Picoult

"When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time." - James Arthur Ray

"You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey. Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last." - Vernon Howard

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." - Sophia Loren

"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

"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have." - Thomas A. Edison

"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?" - Peter McWilliam

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." - Frank Tyger

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle." - Phillips Brooks

"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind." - Carl Hiaasen

"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm." - William Cowper

"When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth." - Neale Donald Walsch

"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." - Elvis Presley

"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance." - Charles Lindbergh

"Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you." - Aaron Douglas Trimble

"He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the LORD." - Proverbs 18:22

"A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers." - African Proverb

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say no to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside." - Stephen Covey

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." - James Gordon, M.D.

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." - Mary Hemingway

"For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude." - Clarence E. Hodges

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes." - Frieda Norris

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." - Hannah Whitall Smith

"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." - Rita Mae Brown

"To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it." - Josh Jenkins

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children." - Alex Haley

"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise." - William Congreve

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men." - Captain J. A. Hadfield

"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first." - David H. Comins

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change." - Barbara de Angelis

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." - Napoleon Hill

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you." - Spanish Proverb

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." - H. T. Leslie

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known." - Chuck Palahniuk