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  • #1
    John Joseph Powell
    “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
    John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #3
    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    Henry James

  • #4
    Audrey Hepburn
    “The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #5
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #6
    Lao Tzu
    “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
    Lao-Tzu

  • #7
    Robert F. Kennedy
    “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
    Robert F. Kennedy

  • #8
    Milton Berle
    “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
    Milton Berle

  • #9
    Boris Pasternak
    “When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. ”
    Boris Pasternak

  • #10
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #12
    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    Seneca

  • #13
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Music is the shorthand of emotion”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #14
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Kings are the slaves of history.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #15
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #16
    Leo Tolstoy
    “God is the same everywhere.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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  • #17
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The Kingdom of God is Within You,”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #18
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #19
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #20
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #21
    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Honoré de Balzac
    “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
    Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

  • #24
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #25
    “When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.”
    Chinese Proverb

  • #26
    “He who is afraid of suffering, is already suffering fear. Out of fear, true creativity is blocked.”
    Chinese Proverb



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