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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One way to get the most out of life is
to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
Nelson Mandela

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt