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  • #1
    Brenda Joyce
    “I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.”
    Brenda Joyce, An Impossible Attraction

  • #2
    Richelle Mead
    “What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it having absolute faith that someone was there at your back? Was it knowing someone so well that they instantly understood why you did the things you did—and shared those same beliefs?”
    Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

  • #3
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

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

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #4
    Mother Teresa
    “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #6
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #8
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #9
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #11
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #12
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
    Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

  • #13
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
    Yves Saint Laurent

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    Alan W. Watts
    “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
    Alan Watts

  • #16
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power

  • #17
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”
    Dalai Lama

  • #18
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

  • #20
    Byron Katie
    “I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.”
    Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

  • #21
    Sharon Salzberg
    “We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”
    Sharon Salzberg, The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion

  • #22
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

  • #23
    Allan Lokos
    “Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.”
    Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

  • #24
    “Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed--Ask for more strenght!”
    Master Chen Yen

  • #25
    Elie Wiesel
    “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #26
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #27
    Steve Maraboli
    “I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #28
    Lisa Kleypas
    “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
    Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

  • #29
    Donald Miller
    “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
    Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

  • #30
    Henry Winkler
    “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
    Henry Winkler

  • #31
    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    Judy Blume

  • #32
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe



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