“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Anais Nin

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
Clark Gable

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein

"It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing."

" Dreaming of how awesome someday will be ,but doing nothing different than what you are doing today. Will cause depression , unhappiness and major dis ease in your life. Do it now , whatever it takes , you can't afford to wait. Don't use the future to escape the present." Unknown


“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.


He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful. --Natalie Portman

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Katniss~~

This is true love — you think this happens every day?”― William Goldman


“He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her he had never minded being alone....” -Unknown



“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”― Sarah Addison

“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” ― Steve Maraboli

“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.” ― Steve Maraboli


“You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.” ― Steve Maraboli

My all-time favorite quote:

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." - Benjamin Franklin

And my second all-time favorite quote:

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass

First time I read the second one, it brought tears to my eyes. SO much horror in this society could be prevented if only so many children were not horribly abused and neglected...:candle:

Speaking of quotes that make me tear up:

"Only when the last tree has died
and the last river been poisoned
and the last fish been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money."

Cree Indian Proverb

:candle:

Broken Wings...Kahlil Gibran
 

"The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the Cedar tree, if the tree loses one strong branch, it will suffer, but it does not die.
It will pour all its vitality into the next branch, so that it will grow and fill that empty place"...GIBRAN



Sadly, I didn't discover my passion for Gibran until college, but I love his works. I no longer have my books of his works...but I can google them.
The above passage is from a dear friend's book, written about her journey through life. She sent me a .pdf file with the book and I am reading it now. I discovered this passage at beginning of one of her chapters..and was reminded of this....as I had read this at my wife's memorial service.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
--Mahatma Gandhi

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

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
--Leslie Caron