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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-ExuperyI am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar WildeSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston ChurchillEven 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 HazlittMen always want to be a womans first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
Oscar WildeThere is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich NietzscheWhat matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezDo what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore RooseveltThe supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself.
Victor HugoHope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich NietzscheCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston ChurchillA good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.
William ShakespeareAlways forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.
Oscar WildeFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EpictetusLove 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 LeeWe must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma GandhiYou have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo CoelhoPerfect 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.
PlatoIf you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt DisneyThere 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 DykeEvery difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath TagoreI 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 PreacherLife can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren KierkegaardA life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard ShawIt’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich