A magical quality exists within words. Mere letters join hands to form words, and, in turn, these words come together to create sentences and phrases that have the power to touch our hearts, reach into our souls, move, and inspire us. When words are placed within the hands of the great masters, their wisdom radiates through like the rays of the sun. These sayings and quotations take up residence within the very core of our beings, and we are forever changed.

The following are a number of memorable sayings that have emerged from the minds of several of the world's greatest thinkers, writers, poets, philosophers, leaders, and teachers. Their words have been passed down through the ages, and have stood the test of time; remaining as true and applicable today as when they were first spoken.

~ On life

- "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

- "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." - Sir Winston Churchill

- "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

- "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost

- "It is not length of life, but depth of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

- "May you live every day of your life." - Jonathan Swift

- "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Henry David Thoreau

- "While there's life, there's hope." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

- "Your life is what your thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius

~ On love

- "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." - Mother Theresa

- "It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that is has begun." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

- "Love conquers all." - Virgil

- "Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

- "Love is a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle

- "Love is my religion - I could die for it." - John Keats

- "Love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine

- "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." - Henry Van Dyke

- "Where there is love there is life." - Mohandas Gandhi

~ On death

- "For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."- William Penn

- "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper." - Robert Alton Harris

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