"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
- Kahlil Gibran

"Although the world is full of suffering, it also full of overcoming it."
- Helen Keller

"I have learned that whenever the question is 'What is important?'; the answer is always 'Love.'
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Life is filled with tough stuff. Death, illness and other causes of human suffering are all part of life. Although extremely difficult, these are the situations that produce the deepest and most profound growth. For some reason, we are more open to learning when we are hurting. We are softer--we are able to admit that we don't know everything."
- Kimberly Kirberger

"The goal of life, the goal of anybody’s life, in fact the only real goal in all of our lives, is to leave this world a better place. To create a lasting impression that you were there, that you made a real difference. To touch lives, to love and be loved."
- Dr. Bill Steinbech

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Oliver Goldsmith

"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 been opened for us."
- Helen Keller

"Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul."
- Democritus

"Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind."
- Alice Meynell


Happy birthday, Scorpio I's.