"The only way to have a friend is to be one"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all"
-Sam Ewig

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity"
-Cesare Pavese

“Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury”

-Edward Chapin

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be”

-Abraham Lincoln

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself”

-Anais Nin

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind”

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friends”

-Robert Louis Stevenson

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver”

-Maya Angelo

“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day”

-Alex Noble

"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired”

-Mother Teresa

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”

-Plato

“Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves”

-Helen Keller

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion”

-The Dalai Lama

“People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within”

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“It isn’t where you come from, it’s where you’re going that counts”

-Ella Fitzgerald