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At dawn, we awake to new dreams, new times, a new life. Each day is a time to start again, a blank slate to fill with daily wishes, daily dreams. Each day is a new life with new opportunity to be whoever we want to be.

– Avina Celest

I’m not that good looking. That’s why ‘Gangnam Style’ works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it’s just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it’s funny.

– Psy

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

– John Dewey

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

– Said Nursi

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

– Kevin Nealon

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Dreams don’t work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.

– Roy T. Bennet

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

– Bob Dylan

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

– Karl A. Menninger

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

– Mao Zedong

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

– John Henry Newman

‘A living dog is better than a dead lion.’ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.

– Abraham Lincoln

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine’s Day stands for because it is about love.

– Michelle Trachtenberg

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

– Benjamin Franklin

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

– Henri Nouwen

So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.

– Robert Browning

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

– Blaise Pascal

I think I’m a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of their gender, caste, class, socio-economic strata, disabilities, political stance, religion or faith.

– Sayani Gupta

The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

– Carl Jung

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

– Carl Jung

Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

– Angela Duckworth

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.

– Bob Feller

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

– Abraham Lincoln

I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

– Ned Vizzini

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

– Marcus Aurelius

We need to send our words out in the direction we want them to go. In other words, we need to start talking victory when we’re staring at defeat. We need to start talking healing when we’re feeling sick. We need to start blessing and prosperity when we don’t have anything. We need to speak about marching when we feel like quitting.

– Jentezen Franklin

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

– Brigitte Bardot

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it’s done right. Even a pancake.

– Julia Child

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

– Mark Twain

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

– Bill Watterso

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

– Taylor Swift

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

– Barack Obama

With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.

– Joyce Giraud

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

– Warren Buffett

Comedy is only funny when there’s real pain.

– Sebastian Stan

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

– George Jean Nathan

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

– Brad Garrett

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

– Benjamin Franklin

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

– Helen Keller

I don’t want to get myself in trouble – and I don’t think I’m super important or anything – but I think it’s so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they’re in art or music or they’re in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

– Justin Vernon

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

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.

– Sidney Poitier

We insult people by calling them assholes, dicks & pussies – some of the most important and essential body parts. We should be calling people we don’t like an appendix.

The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.

– Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

– Sophocles

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

– Torquato Tasso

You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I’m saying is that I don’t think you should know you’re in a movie. I don’t like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, ‘Right, isn’t this funny? Are you with me?’

– Steve Carell

I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.

– Matt Lauer

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.

– Thomas Merton

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

– Bob Dylan