"This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
Abraham Lincoln

"He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it."
Nicole Krauss, [The History of Love]

“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all”
Heinrich Heine 

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint"
Albert Schweitzer

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
Henrik Ibsen 

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
Mark Caine 

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

Carl Jung

“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
Henry Louis Mencken

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.”
Albert Schweitzer 

“One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from selfcentering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.”

Sir Walter Scott

“Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world.”
Ed Hird 

“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game."
Will Durant

“I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.”
City Of Angels Movie 

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
Anne Frank

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”

Sam Keen

"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."
Confucius 

"To measure the man, measure his heart."
Audrey Hepburn

“Always keep one foot in the past, your head in the present, and your eyes to the future.”
John Smith 

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein 

“How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.”
Victor Hugo

“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”

Alex Karras 

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Mahatma Gandhi 

"I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself."
Brittany Renee 

“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
Lewis Carroll 

"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration of beauty."

Christopher Darlington Morley

“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”

Martha Washington