"It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest."

Saying, Greek on Adversity
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Nixon, Richard M. on Adversity
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"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on Friends and Friendship
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"We can only change the world by changing men."

Wells, Charles on World
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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William on Love
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"A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart."

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) on Heart
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on Action
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"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Twain, Mark on Cheerfulness
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"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

Washington, Booker T. on Service
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on Love
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"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

Bodett, Tom on School
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"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George on Friends and Friendship
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"Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you."

Judson, Edward on Success
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"He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear."

Proverb on Fear
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"Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others."

Ward, William A. on Life and Living
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"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."

Gouthey, A. P. on Achievement
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on Goals
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on Dreams
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on Love
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on Adversity
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

Dyer, Wayne on Loneliness
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"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

Maeterlinck, Maurice on Loneliness
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"Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words."

Cummings, Fr. Jerome on Love
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"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."

Schulz, Charles M. on Humankind
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"Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild."

Delp, Alexis on Love
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"A heart in love with beauty never grows old."

Proverb, Turkish on Heart
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"Love can heal a broken heart."

Unknown, Source on Heart
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"The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Sports
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on Love
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"The heart that truly loves never forgets."

Proverb on Heart
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