Love is always bestowed as a gift—freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
—Moshe Arens
A single kind word keeps one warm for three winters.
—Chinese Proverb
When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.
—Maria Mitchell
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
—Carl Jung (Swiss Psychologist)
A man may be outwardly successful all his life long, and die hollow and worthless as a puff-ball; and he may be externally defeated all his life long, and die in the royalty of a kingdom established within him.—A man’s true estate of power and riches, is to be in himself; not in his dwelling, or position, or external relations, but in his own essential character.—That is the realm, in which he is to live, if he is to live as a Christian man.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
—John Watson (Ian Maclaren)
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
—Vince Lombardi (American Sportsperson)
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)
The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That, unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)