God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain”

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have”

When you educate a man you educate an individual when you educate a woman you educate a whole family”

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”

Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future”

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.”

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family”

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under the tree”

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

“I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life."”

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men”

Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one.”

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”

“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.”

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.”

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”

“The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous”

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.”

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”

The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.”

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them”

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Men are what their mothers made them”

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary”

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.”

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother”

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”

The best thing to spend on your children is your time.”

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.”

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear”

“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”

Always do what you are afraid to do.”

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”

This life we live is not for the faint of heart, each move we make affects the next and backtracking isn't allowed. So with each step we plant it must be firm and confident even with the uncertaintanties that lie ahead.”

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.”

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

“Since I cannot govern my own tongue, tho' within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues of others?”

“One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

“When the well is dry, they know the worth of water”

“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”

“Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.”

“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”

“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”

“Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”

“Never confuse motion with action.”

“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage”

“God helps those who help themselves.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two”

“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

“When you're finished changing, you're finished.”

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”

“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

“The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

“Responsibility is the price of greatness.”

“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out”

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

“The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.”

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.”