If you want to be happy now, love now; if you want to be happy later, love later; but if you want to be happy always, love always.
It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love.
Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.
Only what is below you tries to pull you down.
Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul.
If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.
Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.
You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.
Follow few. Lead many. Walk with some. Embrace all.
Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.
A beautiful gift does not decrease in value because it is wrapped in ugly paper.
If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.
When life is sweet, be thankful, and rejoice; but when bitter, be strong, and persevere.
By the time you become an expert at marriage, it is too late to start a new one.
Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings.
If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.
Happy is he who marries the woman he wants, happier is he who marries the woman he needs, and happiest is he who marries the woman he wants and needs.
The sweeter the fruit a tree bears the greater the number of birds that eat from it.
If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.
The greatest weight a bird gives up when preparing to fly is fear.