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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
Ray Bradbury
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Paulo Coelho
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
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 stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans
Success is not the key to success. You have to be passionate, you have to be hungry, and you have to have a purpose.
Eric Thomas
Success is not about being a genius or getting lucky. Success is about how much you believe in yourself and how much you're willing to work for it.
Unknown
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.
Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.
Peter Hagerty
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
Life is like a camera. Focus on the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don't work out, take another shot.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
Lou Holtz
Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and be free from the past.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
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
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues.
William Ellery Channing
Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Lao Tzu
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow
Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry Stimson
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Alice M. Swaim
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.
Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is not about being fearless, it's about being afraid and doing it anyway.
Anonymous
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki
Patience is the key to paradise.
Turkish Proverb
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elder
Patience is a conquering virtue.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen
Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.
Ray A. Davis
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Max Lucado
Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.
C.S. Lewis
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Søren Kierkegaard
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is the soul's adventure into the unknown. It is the acceptance of being lost, but believing that you will be found.
Unknown
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Rick Warren
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Confucius
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
Humility is the surest sign of strength.
Thomas Merton
Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.
Vanna Bonta
Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G.K. Chesterton
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