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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden
Family is the anchor that holds us through life's storms.
Unknown
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII
Family is not just an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox
The love of family is life's greatest blessing.
Unknown
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
Claude Monet
The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary Snyder
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.
Natalie Angier
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B. Yeats
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
Corrie ten Boom
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil Gibran
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
Ben Carson
The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't let you outgive Him. Go ahead and try. See what happens.
Randy Alcorn
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.
Dalai Lama XIV
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
The joy that comes from meaningful work is one of the greatest pleasures of life.
W. Edwards Deming
Hope is a powerful force. It can make us feel more alive, more engaged, and more resilient.
Arianna Huffington
Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
Unknown
When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
Buddha
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.
John Lennon
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and attention.
Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde
The greatest wealth is health.
Virgil
Happiness is the highest form of health.
Dalai Lama
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
The gift of health is keeping me alive to praise and serve God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The joy of health is air in the lungs and sunshine on the skin.
Terri Guillemets
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Christopher McCandless
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The joy of life is to give. Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If you try to grab happiness for yourself, it slips away like a bar of soap.
Ed Mitchell
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
Albert Einstein
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
Audrey Hepburn
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Tony Robbins
The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day
Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
Unknown
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
The best way to appreciate someone is to imagine your life without them.
Unknown
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
The joy of life is to give. The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Unknown
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner
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