"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." -Henry Drummond

"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." -Victor Hugo

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." -James Baldwin

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." -Erich Fromm

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" -Erich Fromm

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." -Bertrand Russell

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." -Kahlil Gibran

"A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses."

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland

"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom." -Chinese proverb

"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified." -Aesop

"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 which has opened for us." -Helen Keller

"One day at a time -- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering." -Ida Scott Taylor.

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." -Soren Kierkegaard

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." -Scottish Proverb

"People would enjoy life more if, once they got what they wanted, they could remember how much they wanted it."

"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come." -Chinese proverb

"Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused."

"Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence." -German Proverb

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." -William Dement

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." -Orison Swett Marden

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." -Buddha

"Become who you are." -Nietzshe

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Nietzshe

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." -Abraham Maslow

"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine." -Fritz Perls

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." -Oscar Wilde

"You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven." -Jimi Hendrix

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds." -Bob Marley

"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." -Janis Joplin

"Be bold in what you stand for; and careful what you fall for."

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you can't convince them, confuse them." -Harry S. Truman

"Don't criticize what you can't understand." -Bob Dylan

"Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." -William Blake

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." -Alfred Adler

"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit." -Abbie Hoffman

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." -Thomas Jefferson

"Question authority and the authorities will question you."

"There's a fine line between an attitude problem and thinking clearly."

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -Plato

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein

"Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

"Each human mind is a galaxy of intelligences, wherein shines the light of a billion stars." -Timothy Ferris