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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
Friendship is the purest love.
Osho
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep.
Unknown
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach
The love of a family is life's greatest blessing.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another.
Giles Andreae
Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and be free.
Tara Brach
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
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Jim Butcher
Hope is the heartbeat of the soul.
Michelle Horst
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton
Hope is the thing that holds you tight, when all else has faded.
J.D. Stroube
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own peace and happiness.
Unknown
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.
John Lennon
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.
Bernie Siegel
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi
We are all one, only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
Anonymous
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin
Laughter is the language of the soul.
Pablo Neruda
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
Mort Walker
Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing.
Jarod Kintz
Laughter is the sunbeam of the soul.
Thomas Mann
Laughter is the music of the heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Laughter is the foundation of reconciliation.
St. Francis de Sales
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
Rod Steiger
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
Unknown
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
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 not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
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 powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude is the antidote to misery. When we cultivate gratitude, we shift the focus from what we lack to the abundance that is already present in our lives.
Kristi Nelson
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
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and attention.
Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
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.
Author Unknown
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Kindness is the beginning of love, and love is the foundation of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
The greatest wisdom is kindness.
Author Unknown
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
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
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Saint Augustine
The best things in life are the people we love, the places we've been, and the memories we've made along the way.
Unknown
Life is a grand adventure. Go live it.
Unknown
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
J.R.R. Tolkien
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.
Anonymous
Creativity is a way of sharing your soul with the world.
Brene Brown
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
Albert Einstein
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso
Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.
Brene Brown
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
Osho
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett
Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
Success is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
Success is not about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
Michelle Obama
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
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