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Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

William Hazlitt

Men always want to be a womans first love - women like to be a mans last romance.

Oscar Wilde

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself.

Victor Hugo

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

William Shakespeare

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

Oscar Wilde

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Paulo Coelho

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Plato

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Henry Van Dyke

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Rabindranath Tagore

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich