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Love Quotes:

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott
"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." – Dr. Seuss
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." – Maya Angelou
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." – Martin Luther King Jr.
"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear." – Oscar Wilde
"Love is not about how many days, months, or years you've been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day." – Unknown
"True love is not a hide-and-seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other." – Michael Bassey Johnson
"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." – Arthur Conan Doyle
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." – Maya Angelou
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn
"We are most alive when we're in love." – John Updike
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." – Martin Luther King Jr.
"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star." – E. E. Cummings
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." – Nicholas Sparks
"The giving of love is an education in itself." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed." – Valerie Lombardo
"True love stories never have endings." – Richard Bach

Inspirational Quotes:

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." – Alan Kay
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt
"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
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." – Mark Zuckerberg
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." – Steve Jobs
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." – C.S. Lewis
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." – Charles Kingsleigh
"It always seems impossible until it's done." – Nelson Mandela
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." – George Herbert
"Champions keep playing until they get it right." – Billie Jean King
"Dream big and dare to fail." – Norman Vaughan

Friendship Quotes:

"Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest... It's about who came and never left your side." – Unknown
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." – Walter Winchell
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." – Woodrow Wilson
"Friends are the family you choose." – Jess C. Scott
"A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them." – Unknown
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." – Thomas Aquinas
"Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left." – Paulo Coelho
"A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world." – Leo Buscaglia
"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." – John Evelyn
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." – Virginia Woolf
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." – Euripides
"True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style." – Nicole Richie
"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
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." – Ed Cunningham
"Friendship is a sheltering tree." – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." – Baltasar Gracián
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden." – Unknown
"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
"A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart." – Unknown

Motivational Quotes:

"Your limitation—it's only your imagination." – Unknown
"Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you." – Unknown
"Great things never come from comfort zones." – Unknown
"Dream it. Wish it. Do it." – Unknown
"Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it." – Unknown
"The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it." – Unknown
"Dream bigger. Do bigger." – Unknown
"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done." – Unknown
"Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction." – Unknown
"Do something today that your future self will thank you for." – Unknown
"Little things make big days." – Unknown
"It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible." – Unknown
"Don't wait for opportunity. Create it." – Unknown
"Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths." – Unknown
"The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles." – Unknown
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." – Charles R. Swindoll
"Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them." – Unknown
"Success is what happens after you have survived all your mistakes." – Unknown
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." – Jim Rohn
"To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." – Mike Gafka

Life Quotes:

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." – Buddha
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." – Confucius
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." – Oscar Wilde
"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale." – Hans Christian Andersen
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." – Mark Twain
"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." – Brian Tracy
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." – William James
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." – Maya Angelou
"The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive." – Indira Gandhi
"May you live all the days of your life." – Jonathan Swift
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." – Charles R. Swindoll
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." – Oprah Winfrey
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." – Robert Frost
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Abraham Lincoln
"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." – Tony Robbins
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." – Oscar Wilde
"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." – Joyce Meyer
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." – Grandma Moses
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." – Theodore Roosevelt
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." – Joshua J. Marine

Nature Quotes:

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." – Lao Tzu
"The mountains are calling and I must go." – John Muir
"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." – John Muir
"To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles." – Mary Davis
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." – Henry David Thoreau
"The earth laughs in flowers." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore." – Lord Byron
"The poetry of the earth is never dead." – John Keats
"Colors are the smiles of nature." – Leigh Hunt
"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." – Gérard de Nerval
"Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude." – Louie Schwartzberg
"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." – Gary Snyder
"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." – John Muir
"Nature always brings out the best in me." – Unknown
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." – Albert Camus
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." – Hans Christian Andersen
"Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience." – Leonardo da Vinci
"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." – Zeno

Wisdom Quotes:

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." – Albert Einstein
"Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey
"Wisdom begins in wonder." – Socrates
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." – Lao Tzu
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk." – Doug Larson
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." – St. Augustine
"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom." – Terry Pratchett
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." – Jimi Hendrix
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." – Lao Tzu
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." – Bruce Lee
"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it." – Maurice Switzer
"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone." – Horace
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought." – Matsuo Bashō
"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." – Thomas J. Watson
"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility." – T.S Eliot
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." – David Starr Jordan
"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them." – Paulo Coelho
"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions." – Confucius

Happiness Quotes:

"Happiness is a warm puppy." – Charles M. Schulz
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters." – Audrey Hepburn
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." – Jim Rohn
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." – Abraham Lincoln
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." – Dalai Lama
"Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed." – Unknown
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." – John Barrymore
"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." – Socrates
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." – Mark Twain
"Happiness is a direction, not a place." – Sydney J. Harris
"Happiness is a state of activity." – Aristotle
"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you." – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"If you want to be happy, be." – Leo Tolstoy
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory." – Rita Mae Brown
"Laughing heartily makes you live longer." – Mary Pettibone Poole
"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder." – Henry David Thoreau

Sadness Quotes:

"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." – Carl Jung
"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain." – Leonardo da Vinci
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time." – Jean de La Fontaine
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water." – Christopher Morley
"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love." – Miguel de Unamuno
"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." – Rumi
"Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard." – David Levithan
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy." – Jim Rohn
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." – Khalil Gibran
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness." – Jonathan Safran Foer
"There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell." – Edgar Allan Poe
"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." – John Steinbeck
"The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow." – Bob Marley
"Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel." – J.K. Rowling
"It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody." – Stephen Chbosky
"Sadness is also a kind of defence." – Ivo Andric
"Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love." – Mario Teguh
"There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well." – Nicholas Sparks
"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance." – Osho

Spiritual Quotes:

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." – Rabindranath Tagore
"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind." – Caroline Myss
"You do not need to know precisely what is happening or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope." – Thomas Merton
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself." – Hermann Hesse
"When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you." – Stephen Richards
"The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love." – Marianne Williamson
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." – Shakti Gawain
"Be guided by Spirit and not driven by ego." – Unknown
"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear." – Daniel Defoe
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." – Rumi
"Everything in life is speaking, in spite of its apparent silence." – Hazrat Inayat Khan
"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it." – Henri J.M. Nouwen
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." – Carl Jung
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." – Joseph Campbell
"Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." – The Bible
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." – Lao Tzu
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." – Rumi
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." – Carl Jung
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." – Buddha

Funny Quotes:

"I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right." – Unknown
"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book." – Groucho Marx
"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." – Jim Carrey
"I can resist everything except temptation." – Oscar Wilde
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." – Dalai Lama
"I'm reading a book on anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down." – Unknown
"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." – Steve Martin
"If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you." – Steven Wright
"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them." – Mitch Hedberg
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day." – A. A. Milne
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." – Erma Bombeck
"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done." – Steven Wright
"I'd like to live like a poor man – only with lots of money." – Pablo Picasso
"If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out." – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." – Abraham Lincoln
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak." – Alan Dundes
"Don’t you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn’t work." – Gallagher
"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?" – Robin Williams
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." – Lily Tomlin
"I'm on a whiskey diet. I've lost three days already." – Tommy Cooper

Family Quotes:

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything." – Michael J. Fox
"The love of a family is life's greatest blessing." – Unknown
"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten." – David Ogden Stiers
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." – George Santayana
"Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter." – Brad Henry
"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!" – Albert Einstein
"Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can't." – Unknown
"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there." – Barbara Bush
"Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing." – Unknown
"Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life." – Lisa Weed
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." – Desmond Tutu
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." – Jane Howard
"Family is like branches on a tree; we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one." – Unknown
"Our family is a circle of strength, founded on faith, joined in love, kept by God, together forever." – Unknown
"Family is the heart of a home." – Unknown
"My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me." – Michael Imperioli
"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family." – Lee Iacocca
"Family makes you who you are and aren't." – Marcelina Hardy
"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family." – Mother Teresa

Gratitude Quotes:

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough." – Aesop
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." – Henry Ward Beecher
"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." – Cicero
"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." – Aesop
"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone." – Gertrude Stein
"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful." – Roy T. Bennett
"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world." – John Milton
"Gratitude is the heart’s memory." – French Proverb
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." – William Arthur Ward
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." – Melody Beattie
"In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"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
"No duty is more urgent than giving thanks." – James Allen
"Gratitude changes everything." – Unknown
"Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices." – Robert Braathe
"Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude." – Deepak Chopra
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." – Voltaire
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind." – Lionel Hampton

Adventure Quotes:

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." – Amelia Earhart
"Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show." – Unknown
"Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul." – Jaime Lyn Beatty
"To travel is to take a journey into yourself." – Danny Kaye
"Adventure is not outside man; it is within." – George Eliot
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." – Oprah Winfrey
"May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home." – Trenton Lee Stewart
"Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you." – Richard Aldington
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." – Lao Tzu
"Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures." – Lovelle Drachman
"Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure." – Irving Wallace
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." – G.K. Chesterton
"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure." – Christopher McCandless
"Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles of life." – John Amatt
"Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be." – Steve Pavlina
"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will rarely be." – Bertrand Russell
"Adventure must be held in the balance with caution." – Charles Lindbergh
"If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority." – Richard Branson
"Adventure is worthwhile." – Aristotle