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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Love is not something you go out and look for. Love finds you, and when it does, ready or not, it'll be the best thing to ever happen to you.
Anonymous
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks
The most important thing in life is to love and be loved.
St. John Bosco
The greatest happiness in life is the certainty that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach
The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Zig Ziglar
The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Jalaluddin Rumi
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The present moment is all you ever have.
Eckhart Tolle
The present moment is perfect. You don't need to change anything.
Mooji
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin
Laughter is the language of the soul.
Pablo Neruda
Laughter is the best medicine.
Proverb
Laughter is the foundation of reconciliation.
St. Francis de Sales
Laughter is the music of the soul.
Unknown
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Saint Augustine
Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
Mark Jenkins
I travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape me.
Anonymous
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
Art is the highest form of hope.
Gerhard Richter
The purpose of art is to make the invisible visible.
Paul Klee
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman
The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B. Yeats
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare
Friendship is the purest love.
Osho
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
The simplest things are often the truest.
Richard Bach
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Socrates
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
Steve Maraboli
The greatest things in life are not things at all.
Unknown
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Unknown
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and compassion.
Unknown
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
The greatest wisdom is kindness.
Unknown
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.
Unknown
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Buddha
Forgiveness is the key to unlocking the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
Corrie ten Boom
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
The greatest gift you can give yourself is forgiveness.
Maya Angelou
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
Wayne Dyer
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
James Allen
The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation.
Naval Ravikant
The greatest gift you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Ram Dass
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Success is not the destination, it's the journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Unknown
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. Success means you're going toward your goal; not just reaching it.
Anita Roddick
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.
Mary Davis
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Tony Robbins
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.
Roy T. Bennett
Self-love, self-respect, self-worth: There’s a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You can’t find them in anyone else.
Unknown
You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.
Sophia Bush
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert Hand
When you make a mistake, respond to yourself in a loving way rather than a self-shaming way.
Dr. Kristin Neff
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