"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising each time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them." - William F. Halsey

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher

"All serious daring starts from inside." - Eudora Welty

"Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you." - Joey Adams

"The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings." - Henri Frederic Amiel

"The more you invest in a [relationship], the more valuable it becomes."  - Amy Grant

"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects." - Arnold Glasow

"Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life."  -Hugh Prather

"Because you are not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in fact, you are." - Madeline L'Engle

"How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?" - Harry Truman

"Write it in your heart that every day is the best day of the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening." - Marge Piercy

"The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must come to an end." - Baroness Orczy

"Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes." - Rev. Jesse Jackson

"Love is, above all, a gift of oneself." - Jean Anouilh

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we only knew the real value of a day." - Joseph Farrell

"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." - O. Carl Simonton

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are
  thankful it's no worse than it is." - Margaret Mitchell

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."  - Mignon McLaughlin

"A friend is someone who knows the song when you have forgotten the words."  - Nigerian proverb

"Don't let other people tell you what you want." - Pat Riley

"We are what we believe we are." - Benjamin N. Cardozo

"Acceptance of what happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any
  misfortune." - William James

Things turn out best for people who make the best of how things turn out.

"What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more liveable." - Louise Nevelson

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.

"I don't believe in pessimism." - Clint Eastwood

"Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'" - Pearl Buck

"There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head." - Thornton Wilder

"The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living
  without it." - Harvey Milk

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong

"If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters." - Abigail Van Buren

"The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."  - Henry David Thoreau
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