Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
- Unknown

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
- C.S. LEWIS, The Four Loves

There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- ALBERT EINSTEIN

Never give up!

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The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrongdoer.
- MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations

Blessed are the peace-makers; for they shall be called the children of God.
- BIBLE, Mathhew 5:9

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Emile

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
- ARISTOTLE, Politics

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
- SEBASTIEN-ROCH NOCOLAS CHAMFORT, Maximes et pensees

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- AESOP, Fables

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
- SAINT AUGUSTINE, Sermons

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
- LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
THOMAS JEFFERSON - "A decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life" (in letter 1825)

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELLIOT, Adam Bede

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
- JOHN HEYWOOD, Proverbs

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
- VERNON LAW, in This Week

Love truth but pardon error.
- VOLTAIRE, Sept discours en Vers sur l'homme

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
- GRAHAM GREENE, The Power and the Glory

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
- CICERO, De Natura Deorum

If it were not for Hopes, the Heart would break.
- THOMAS FULLER, Gnomologia