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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 who 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

Other things may change us but we start and end with family
Anthony Brandht

The greatest happiness in 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 Chensy

Your heart is not living until it had 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 Douglas

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 is 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

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget it as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely, and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your own nonsense
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The roots of the true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become
Harold Tylor

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

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself
John McNaughton

The purpose of life is a life of purpose
Robert Byrne
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