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Life and Love IV
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Saint-Exupery, Antoine de (1900-1944)
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Sand, George (1804-1876)
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

Sawyer, Eve
"Never underestimate the power of passion."

Satie, Erik (1866-1925)
"When I was young, I was told: 'you'll see when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing."

Schuller, Robert (1926-)
"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."

Schultz, Charles M. (1922-2000)
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (BCE 3-65 CE)
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

Shore, Dinah (1916-1994)
"Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."

Skinner, B.F. (1904-1990)
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

Spikol, Art
"If you don't try to do what you are, you may become what you do."

Stallone, Sylvester
"I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy."

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."

"You must not fancy I am sick, only overdriven and under the weather."

Streisand, Barbra
"When people envy me I think, Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains."

Stravinsky, Igor
"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than Love?"

Sunde, Karen
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."

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Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878)
"The loving are the daring."

Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri (1944- )
"Time I value above all things. It just gets more and more precious."

Teilhard De Chardin, Pierre (1881-1955)
"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves."

Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?"

Thomas, Danny (1912-1991)
"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."

Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams."

Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910)
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."

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Ustinov, Peter(1921-)
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

Van Dyke, Henry (1852-1933)
"Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest."

Velimirovic, Nikolai (1880-1956)
"Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you."

Vonnegut, Kurt
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

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Ward, William Arthur
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it."

Washington, Booker Taliaferro (1856-1915)
"Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed."

Wells, H.G. (1866-1946)
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do."

Wilder, Billy
"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning."

Wilson, Woodrow T. (1856-1924)
"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."

Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
"That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."

Zadra, Dan
"Always know in your heart that you are far bigger than anything that can happen to you."

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