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“The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.”
Stephen King
“True love stories never have endings.”
Richard Bach
“I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas Edison
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley
“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
Aristotle
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to swoon at excellence merely, as if shock and amazement could leave a permanent congratulate; but rather it consists of an adequate equivalent to urge the worthy possessor to further worthiness and beyond. The highest praise one can offer is in some measure urging him on to even higher praiseworthy acts. And so I thank you, dear people.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
William Shakespeare
“How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.”
— Fred Rogers
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.”
Franz Kafka
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Newton
“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?”
— Christopher Marlowe
“I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ”
Margaret Mead
“We make silk purses out of silk.”
Warren Buffett
“Stop being tormented by everyone else's reaction to you.”
Joyce Meyer
“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”
William Shakespeare
“If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”
Samuel Butler
“Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you've got to give it.”
— R.G. Risch
“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”
Ray Bradbury
“Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.”
Joyce Meyer
“It is in changing that we find purpose.”
Heraclitus

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