Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.
~ Melody Beattie
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
~ John Holt
I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
~ Helen Keller
You will find as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
~ Henry Drummond
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
~ Javan
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
~ Nan Fairbother
Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
~ Melody Beattie
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~ William James
The road to a friend's house is never long.
~ Danish proverb
A friend is one knows you and loves you just the same.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Friends are treasures.
~ Horace Bruns
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
~ Buddha
I wish they would only take me as I am.
~ Vincent van Gogh
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
~ Amy Carmichael
If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
~ Louise Brown
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are all loved.
~ Victor Hugo
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
~ Albert Pine
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
~ Anthony Brandt
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~ Victor Hugo
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
~ Hannah Moore
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
~ William James
Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are those... it might have been.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
~ John Vance Cheney
Your heart is not living until it has experienced pain... the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.
~ Hazret Inayat Khan
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
~ Frederick Douglass
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on.
~ Robert Frost
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
~ Dolly Parton
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourselves.
~ Andy Warhol
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
~ Joan Borysenko
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
~ Helen Keller
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
~ Ziggy
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
~ Lewis Carroll
You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's fine. If they don't, that's their problem.
~ Sting
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
~ Harold Taylor
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
~ Richard L. Evans
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
~ Josh Billings
