INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”

DR. LEO BUSCAGLIA
PROFESSOR, AUTHOR
VISION

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

G. K. CHESTERTON
WRITER, POET, ESSAYIST, NOVELIST
CHARITY

“Respect is love in plain clothes.”

FRANK BYRNES
FORMER IRISH RADIO HOST
COMPLIMENTS

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

LAOZI
CHINESE PHILOSOPHER, CENTRAL FIGURE IN TAOISM
OPPORTUNITY

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

BEN OKRI
POET, NOVELIST
TRUE BEAUTY

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.”

THOMAS PAINE
SCHOLAR, INTELLECTUAL, WRITER
TEAMWORK

“Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

OG MANDINO
ESSAYIST, PSYCHOLOGIST
CHARACTER

“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”

PEACE PILGRIM
PACIFIST, PEACE-ACTIVIST
EQUALITY

“Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.”

CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT
AUTHOR, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
SHARING

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”

NATALIE GOLDBERG
AUTHOR, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
EQUALITY

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another.”

AYN RAND
WRITER, PHILOSOPHER
LITERACY

“The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.”

THOMAS CARLYLE
ESSAYIST, SATIRIST, HISTORIAN
RESPECT

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.”

SISTER MARY CORITA KENT
ARTIST, EDUCATOR
CHARACTER

“You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL
WRITER, CARTOONIST, ANIMATOR
HELPING OTHERS

“Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.”

MOTHER TERESA
FOUNDER OF THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY
APPRECIATION

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ”

SOPHIA LOREN
ACTRESS
GIVING BACK

“For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. ”

JOEY TOLBERT
POET
INGENUITY

“The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has.”

ANONYMOUS
REACHING OUT

“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. [from Don Juan DeMarco (1994)]”

JOHNNY DEPP
ACTOR
LOVE

“You cannot take good care of a child unless you love the child, you must be part of their life.”

CAROL DONALD
FOSTER PARENT
LOVE

“If you want trust, trust others. If you want respect, respect others. If you want help, help others. If you want love and peace in your life, give them away. If you want great friends, be one. That’s how it works. ”

DAN ZADRA
BUSINESSMAN, INSPIRATIONAL WRITER
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE

“The adventure of life is to learn. The goal of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The secret of life is to dare. The beauty of life is to give. The joy of life is to love!”

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
AUTHOR, EDUCATOR, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
LIVE LIFE

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. ”

RABINDRANATH TAGORE
POET, PLAYWRIGHT, ESSAYIST
LOVE

“People are partying, songs are being sung, Sugarplums are dancing, all in holiday fun. Presents are under the tree, reindeer fly high above, peace on earth, goodwill to all, sending joy and love!”

D.M. DELLINGER
LOVE

“Another fresh new year is here . . . another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me to live each day with zest . . . to daily grow and try to be my highest and my best! I have the opportunity once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant a tree, and sing more joyful songs.”

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
AUTHOR, EDUCATOR, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
LIVE LIFE