"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." -Victor Hugo "What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger." -Nietzsche "Things without all remedy should be without regard: What's done is done." -William Shakespeare "In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strenght to continue and endure." -Heart Warrior Chosa "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true." -Richard Bach "Tough times never last, tough people do." -Robert Schutler "The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it." -C.C. Scott "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same." -author unknown "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Teresa "A friend is a gift you give yourself." -Robert Louis Stevenson "Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead." -author unknown "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." -Epictetus "There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy." -author unknown "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." -Lao-tzu "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." -Plato "The greatest gift is a portion of thyself." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." -Gandhi "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it." -Mark Twain "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." -C.S. Lewis "You gain strenght, courage and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'" -Eleanor Roosevelt "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." -James M. Barrie "You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?" -Rumi "although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." -Helen Keller "Knowledge is love and light and vision." -Helen Keller "Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it." -Thadeus Golas "The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us." -Alcoholics anonymous "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." -Tommy Lasorda "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." -John Wooden "If 'A' is success in life, then 'A' equals 'X' plus 'Y' plus 'Z'. Work is 'X', 'Y' is play and 'Z' is keeping your mouth shut." -Albert Einstein "Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly." -Saint Francis DeSalas "Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul and the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." -Napoleon Hill "The opposite of love is not hate but indifference." -Elie Wiesel "The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision today." -Robert Schuller "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within." -Helen Keller "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." -Oscar Wilde "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 "A true friend is one who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." -Len Wein "To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." -Baltasar Gracian "There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain." -R.D. Laing "The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."-Charles Perkhurst "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." -Theodore Roosevelt "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see whole staircase, just take the first step." -Martin Luther King Jr. "Be careful whose toes you step on today because they might be connected to the foot that kicks your ass tomorrow!!" -Brandon Ramos "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." -Reinhold Niebuhr "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln "I hope life isn't a big joke...because I don't get it!" -unknown "Happiness is not having what you want, It's wanting what you have." -unknown "Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open." -John Barrymore "Often the greatest enemy of present happiness is past happiness too well remembered." -Oscar Hammling "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -Helen Keller "Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry." -Mark Twain "A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." -Jerome Cummings "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." -Walter Winchell "Can miles truly seperate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?" -Richard Bach "The friendship that can cease has never been real." -Saint Jerome "A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you." -unknown "Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." -unknown