"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
— George Burns

"You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others."
— Chinese Proverb

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"Rules for Happiness:
something to do,
someone to love,
something to hope for."
— Immanuel Kant

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
— James Baldwin

"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart."
— Elizabeth Berg

"Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much."
— Lisa Wingate

"Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them."
— Bill Ayers