* Self-Development
* Happiness

* Love

* Kindness and Service
* Family
* Learning
* Humor
* Philosophical
 
 
 
 
   
   

 

   
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Self-Development

   

 

   

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
-Stephen Covey

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
-Leonardo da Vinci

The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King

Before you put on a frown, make sure you are absolutely certain there are no smiles available.
-Jim Beggs

I claim to be no more than an average man with below averages capabilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have if he or she would put forward the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
-Ghandhi

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
-Shakespeare

Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
-Anonymous

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but that our ability to do has increased.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
-Leo Roskin

What we do in life, echoes an eternity.
-Maximus(from the movie Gladiator)

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
-Anatole France

It is by acts and not ideas that people truly live.
-Anatole France

There is nothing permanent except change.
-Heraclitus

Right now we've got freedom AND responsibility. It's a very groovy time.
-Austin Powers-International man of mystery

   

   

Happiness

   

 

   

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-Allan K. Chambers

If a man is happy in his work exerting himself to the full extent of his capabilities, and enjoying it, I'd say he's a success.
-William Romain

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
-Samuel Butler

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something with which nothing can be compared.
-Gandhi

Work like you don't need the money; love like you've never been hurt; and dance like you do when nobody's watching.
-Anonymous

My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
-Omar Kyyam

   

   

Love

   

 

   

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is¡¦..
In truth in can never be wrong.
Like the sunrise, perfect in every possible way.
It never hides in shadows or in darkness.
It never feeds itself on deception.
It grows with trust, honesty, and compassion.
Nothing less, always more.
-Shakespeare

A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life.
-Ana Alas

Let no one who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
-James Mathew Barrie

Love is the language our hearts use to speak to one another. For you, my dear, my heart sings.
-Amanda R. Byrd

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, re-made all the time, made new.
-Ursula K. Le Guin

Love is the tact of every good.
The only warmth, the only peace.
-Delmore Shwartz

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
-Mother Theresa

   

   

Kindness and Service to Others

   

 

   

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
-William Lyon Phelps

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face; kindness in your eyes; kindness in your smile; and kindness in your greetings.
-Mother Theresa

I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up.
-Martin Luther King

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
-Dag Hammarskjold (former secretary general of the U.N.)

   

   

Family

   

 

   

As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.
-Pope John Paul II

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
-Bruce Barton

Marriage is full of sorrows and full of joys. It lies under more burdens but it is supported by all the strengths of love, and those burdens are delightful.
-16th Century Bishop

   

   

Learning

   

 

   

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
-Chinese Proverb

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.
-St. Augustine

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
-William Cowper

Once and for all, there is a great deal I do not want to know. Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
-Nietzsche

   

   

Humor

   

 

   

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
-Comedian Steven Wright

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-Benjamin Franklin

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
-Albert Einstein

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
-Albert Einstein

Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.
-Chinese Proverb

   

   

Philosophical

   

 

   

Darkness has no existence of it's own. It's only a lack of light.
-Jostein Gaarder(from the novel Sophie's World)

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.
-Gandhi

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
-Albert Camus

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-Voltaire

It is difficult to overcome one's passion, and impossible to satisfy them.
-Marguerite de la Sabliere

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
-Henry David Thoreau