When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Michel de Montaigne

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

John Gay

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

William Samuel Johnson

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Malcolm. W. Little

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Oprah Winfrey

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

Daisaku Ikeda

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Paul Getty

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

Greg LeMond