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It's your life. Live it at your own terms.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Respect is love in plain clothes.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody — that is a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?

’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Let go, or be dragged.

The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying and sacrifice.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The heart was made to be broken.

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

We accept the love we think we deserve.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Paper has more patience than people.

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.