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“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
— Vidal Sassoon
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
— Confucius
“No one returns from a long journey the same person they were before.”
— Zen Proverb
“If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.”
— Tony Robbins
“The secret of life isn't what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Man must live in contentment with the conditions of his time. He must not make himself the slave of any habit. He must eat a piece of stale bread with the same relish and enjoyment as the most sumptuous dinner. Contentment is real wealth. If one develops within himself the quality of contentment he will become independent. Contentment is the creator of happiness. When one is contented he does not care either for riches or poverty. He lives above the influence of them and is indifferent to them.”
— Abdu'l-Baha
“Every day is an opportunity to a make a new happy ending.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.”
— Antisthenes
“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”
— Morihei Ueshiba
“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Do not believe that you will reach your destination without leaving the shore. ”
— Chinese Proverb
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed.”
— Mark Twain
“A little considerate words can go a long, long way.”
— Gandhi
“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Simple words, repeated daily, can change your life.”
— Maxime Lagace
“Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.”
— George S. Patton
“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
— Nicholas Sparks
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“From caring comes courage.”
— Lao Tzu
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
— Confucius

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