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

L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux, What is essential is invisible to the eyes. --- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le petit prince

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. --- Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. --- Mother Teresa

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. ---Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. ---Helen Keller

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

God is an unutterable sigh, lying in the depths of the heart. ---Sebastian Franck

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ---Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. ---Edgar Allan Poe

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

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. ---Anatole France

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. ---Tupac Shakur

Imagination is more important than knowledge. ---Albert Einstein, On Science

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. ---Norman Vincent Peale

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. ---Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. ---Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ---Buddha

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ---Mahatma Gandhi

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

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ---Mark Twain

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. ---Oscar Wilde

I may disagree with what you say
but I will fight to the death for your right to say it
--- Voltaire

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