Quotes Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. -Longfellow Luck is the residue of design. -Milton You must take your chance. -Shakespeare JOY Joys are our wings. -Rumi Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. -Colgrove A joy that's shared is a joy made double. -American Proverb For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. -Shakespeare The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. -Tennyson Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. -Nelms LOVE Who so loves believes the impossible. -Browning Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -Shakespeare 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -Tennyson Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -Mencken There is no remedy for love but to love more. -Thoreau Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. -Anouilh Where there is love there is life. -Gandhi Nunc scio quit sit amor. (Latin, Now I know what love is). -Virgil What barrier is there that love cannot break? -Ghandi Love is blind. FRIENDS Friends are treasures. -Bruns When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. A true friend is one soul in two bodies. -Aristotle BEAUTY The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. -Rumi. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. -Rumi Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. -Emerson INSPIRATIONAL Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -James To see small beginnings is clearness of sight. -Lao Tzu Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story. -Homer Dreams are necessary to life. -Anais Nin To sleep, perchance to dream. -Shakespeare To be great is to be misunderstood. Le meilleur est encore a venir (French, The best is yet to come). Joie de vivre (French, Joy of life). Fortune favors the brave. Live the life you imagine. Hitch your wagon to a star. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Follow your bliss. Dwell in possibility. Every moment is a gift. Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty (or Truth is Beauty). -John Keats May your crayons never melt. As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. -A.C. Benson PROVERBS A kind word is like a spring day. -Russian Proverb It is necessary to live and to not only exist. -French Proverb As he thinks in his heart, so he is. -Jewish Proverb Diligence is the mother of good luck. -American Proverb Dreams are wishes your heart makes. -American Proverb Each day provides its own gifts. -American Proverb MISC. Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. -Rumi For as long as it lasts, let the singer be the song. For as much as it's worth, let the truth outweigh the lies. For this single moment in time, let my own voice be heard -Anonymous We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin Smile because it happened. -Dr Seuss Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. -Henry Ward Beecher All that spirits desire, spirits attain. -Kahlil Gibran Look up, not out look forward, not back look out, not in Life itself is a wonderful fairytale- |

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