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There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clake

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles

I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.
John Keats

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be much the more grateful.
Horace


How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened.
Thomas

It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.
Chas. Austin Bates

Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
Doris M. Smith

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul Richter

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Henry W. Longfellow

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Bruxton

Time is a physician which heals every grief.
Diphilus

Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed- Carl Jung

Love understands all languages. - Romanian Proverb

Perfect love cannot be without equality. - Scottish Proverb

t is love that makes the impossible possible.
- Indian Proverb

Where there is love there is no darkness.
- Burundi Proverb

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius