~ You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss
~ Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie
~ Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
~ When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
~ You have to risk stepping outside the circle that has been drawn around you - Lourdes Soab
~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
~ Intimacy between friends involves a nondominate love, as well as vulnerability. With a true friend we can share the deepest laces of our hearts, the dark as well as the light. - Madeleine L'Engle
~ Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Baldwin
~ The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand. - Robert Vallett
~ Do what you feel in your heart to be right. For you'll be criticized for it anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt
~ For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. - Bette Howland
~ When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred. - Thomas Jefferson
~ Holding your anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one that gets burned. - Buddha
~ Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. - Proverb
~ Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. - C.S. Lewis
~ Love begins when the needs of someone else become more important than your own. - Lao Wei
~ Life breaks us. And when we heal, we are stronger in the broken parts. - Ernest Hemmingway
~ We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is awaiting us. - Joseph Campbell
~ A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. - Sydney Smith
~ Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will lead you down the right path. - Henry Winkler
~ You can come out of a furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refused to be consumed and comes out a star. - Jean Church
~ Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. - John Barrymore
~ Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
~ Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong
~ Your purpose is anything that touches your heart and makes a difference to you. - Marcia Wieder
~ I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be? - Goldie Hawn
~ Don't compromise yourself. You are all you-ve got. - Janis Joplin
~ Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't. - Mark Twain
~ Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment& the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. - Jorge Luis Borges
~ Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - James M. Barrie
~ Hope is wanting something so eagerly that - in spite of all evidence that you're not going to get it - you go right on wanting it. - Norman Vincent Peale
~ The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Sean O'Casey
~ I wanted the perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the most of it without knowing what is going to happen next.
~ Our strength is often composed of the weaknesses we're damned if we're going to let show.
~ There is nothing like returning to a place that remains the same to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
~ There are people who put their dreams in a box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and, yep, they are still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.
~ Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
~ The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces. - "The Bridges of Madison County"
~ Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County"
~ The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before. - "The Bridges of Madison County"
~ The old dreams were good dreams; the didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them. - "The Bridges of Madison County"
~ Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
~ A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
~ It hurts to love someone and never be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never have the courage to let that person know how you feel.
~ Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will be grateful for that gift.
~ It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
~ There are things that you'd love to hear that you will never hear from the person whom you would like to hear them from, but don't be so deaf as to not hear it from the one who says it from his heart.
~ Never say good-bye if you still want to try. Never give up if you feel you can go on. Never say you don't love a person if you can't let go.
~ Love comes to those who still hope although they've been disappointed, those who still believe although they've been betrayed, to those who still need to love although they've been hurt before, and those who have the courage and faith to build their trust again.
~ It only takes a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
~ Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you only have one life and one chance to do all the things you're meant to do.
~ The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
~ It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck
~ I've developed a new philosophy I only dread one day at a time. - Charlie Brown (Charles Schultz)
~ Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it& Success is shy; it won't come out while you're watching. - Tennessee Williams
~ A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is specifically what you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are the coming attractions in your life. - Joseph Campbell
~ A happy ending cannot come in the middle of a story. - "The Last Unicorn"
~ Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean
~ Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same. - Emily Bronte
~ Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. - Sarah Ban Breathnach
~ The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser in case you though optimism was dead. - Robert Brault
~ How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. - CoCo Chanel
~ The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
~ Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball
~ They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. - Wilt Chamberlain
~ Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence. - Rosalynn Carter
~ Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali