"Fear less, hope more;Whine less, breathe more;Talk less, say more;Hate less, love more;And all good things are yours." -Swedish Proverb

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."

"Life is wasted on the living."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." -Buddha

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." -Robert Byrne

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All life is an experiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Gandhi

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." -William James

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." -William James

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -William James

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." -W. M. Lewis

"Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art; to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." "Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be." -Jeremy Schwartz

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." -Socrates

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. -Laura Swenson

"May you live every day of your life." -Jonathan Swift

* Love <3 *


"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." "If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."

"Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota." Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away."

"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."

"The best proof of love is trust." -Joyce Brothers

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." -La Bruyere

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes." -Willa Cather

"A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose." -Rob Cella

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -Charles Caleb Colton

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." -Joseph Conrad

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"Love builds bridges where there are none." -R. H. Delaney

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." -Benjamin Disraeli

"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks." -John Donne, "The Bait"

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." -Henry Drummond

"Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind." -T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." -Albert Ellis

"All mankind love a lover." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do." -Nan Fairbrother

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." -Erich Fromm

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" -Erich Fromm

"Where there is love there is life." -Mahatma Gandhi

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." -Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." -David Grayson

"There is only one terminal dignity -- love." -Helen Hayes

"The supreme happiness in life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." -Victor Hugo

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." -Javan

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao-Tzu

"Do all things with love." -Og Mandino

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished." -Og Mandino

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." -Anais Nin

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." -Plato

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." -Benjamin Franklin

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." -Bertrand Russell

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." -Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

"I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it." -Kyle Schmidt

"Love means never having to say you're sorry." -Erich Segal

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Theresa

"Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is."-Virgil

* Happiness : ) *

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."

"...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..." -Aristotle

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." -Buddha

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -Benjamin Disraeli

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." -Ben Franklin

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." -Burton Hills

"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

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." -Henry Miller

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." -Cynthia Nelms

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." -William Makepeace Thackeray

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -Mark Twain

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde