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“A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.”
― Frank Crane

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked. ”
― Lorenzo Snow

“Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?”
― William Shakespeare

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

“Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.”
― Joseph Addison

“To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked. ”
― Brigham Young

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.”
― Felicia Hemans

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.”
― Og Mandino

“PROCRASTINATION means you know what you need to do and you don't do it. If you don't know what to do, you aren't procrastinating. You're thinking. ”
― Lynn Lively

“If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.”
― Neil Simon

“Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.”
― Ellis Peters

“No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.”
― Leon Wieseltier

“When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.”
― John Ruskin

“When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.”
― John Lennon

“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Craik, A Life For A Life

“One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger,
Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.”
― William Shakespeare

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.”
― James E. Faust

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”
― Henry Van Dyke

“Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.”
― Robert Browning

“There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”
― Victor Robinson

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.