Some of my favorite quotes:

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things. Sara Teasdale

Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for, are the true essentials of a happy and meaningful life. David Goodman

Ask and it shall be given you; seek; and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7

Nothing is life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie

Write on your hearts that every day is the best day of the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love your enemies for they tell your faults. Franklin

Keep in touch with your dreams.

He who plants trees loves others besides himself.

Life is a game of cards: greeting, post and credit. Karol Newlum

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21

To a young heart everything is fun. Charles Dickens

Gardening requires lots of water-most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson

Love is like a seashell. Andrew Blair

Love looks not with the eyes but with the heart. Shakespeare

Life is what we make it, always has been always will be. Grandma Moses

Love is the reward of love. Schiller

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. Addison

To sow is less difficult than to reap. Goethe

Compliment three people each day. A Father's Instruction for Life. Readers' Digest

Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Believing in yourself and liking yourself is all apart of good looks. Shirley Lord

It is never to late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

Life is what happens while you are making other plans. John Lennon

We learn the rope of life bu untying its knots. Jean Torener

If the world seems cold to you, kindle first to warm it. Lacy Larrson

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 that has opened for us. Helen Keller

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Berger

When you handle yourself use your head, when you handle others use your heart. Donna Reed

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