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Don’t count every day of the week; make every day of the week count.

Sometimes we choose to be wrong, not because we really are wrong, but because we value our relationship more than our pride.

When you are not sure which way to go, it is always wise to follow your heart.

You can’t keep running away from your fears. At some point in life you will have to build up the courage to face and overcome them.

Courage is asking for a time out, to shed a tear, to dust yourself off, and then getting back in the ring to fight like you’ve never fought before.

Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they're bad people, it simply means they're human.

Some people think that to be strong is to never feel pain. In reality, the strongest people are the ones who feel it, understand it, accept it, and learn from it.

If you want more joy, serve. If you want more money, solve problems. If you want more freedom, face your fears.

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are better at hiding it than others.

True love isn’t love at first sight, but love at every sight.

Just because it was that way yesterday, it doesn’t mean that it has to be that way today.

Love yourself, so others love you. Believe in yourself, so others believe in you. Respect yourself, so others respect you. In short, the way you treat yourself sets standards for others.

People are quick to judge, but slow to correct themselves.

In a world of comparison and conformity, make your own statement. Honor your own truth. Have the courage to be yourself; risk speaking your own thoughts and claiming your emotions. Share your vulnerabilities, tears, doubts, and insecurities; let others experience the real you. Have the courage to be yourself and realize that you are a wonderful person.

What comes easy, won’t always last. And what will last, won’t always come easy.

Breathe in the future, breathe out the past.

I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel.

Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.

Being single is not necessarily a bad thing. It is much better than being in an unhealthy relationship with the wrong person.

Give the gift of your absence to those who do not appreciate your presence.

Everything in life is temporary. So if things are going good, enjoy it because it won't last forever. And if things are going bad, don't worry because it can't last forever either.

Keep going. No matter what you do, no matter how many times you screw up and think to yourself that there’s no point to carry on or no matter how many people tell you that you can’t do it - keep going. Don’t quit. Don’t quit, because a few months from now you will be that much closer to your goal than you are now. Make today count.

Do whatever makes you happy, but do it now. Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain. Take advantage of what’s right in front of you.

3 things you cannot recover in life: The moment after it’s missed, the word after it’s said, and the time after it’s wasted.

Take chances, take a lot of them. Because honestly, no matter where you end up and with whom, it always ends up just the way it should be. Your mistakes make you who you are. You learn and grow with each choice you make. Everything is worth it. Say how you feel, always. Be you, and be okay with it.

There is a difference between giving up and starting over.

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher it is. Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

How do you avoid disappointment? Don't expect anything.

Making a big life change is scary. But, do you know what’s even scarier? Regret.

Love the people who saw you when you were invisible to everyone else.

Find a partner who encourages you to grow, who won’t cling to you, who will let you go out into the world, and trust that you will come back.

No matter what, you're going to lose people in your life. Realize that no matter how much time you've spent with someone or how much you appreciate them, sometimes it will never seem like it was enough.

Surround yourself with people who make you a better person.

It’s not enough to just have potential. You also need to know what to do with it.

Sometimes things have to go wrong before they can go right. Sometimes we have to let the wrong people walk out before we allow the right people to walk in. Sometimes we have to feel weak in order to know what it’s like to feel strong. Sometimes you have to be broken to realize you’ll never be shattered.

Sometimes people don't notice the things we do for them until we stop doing them.

Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.

If you can learn from the worst times of your life, you'll be ready to go into the best times of your life.

The world’s problem is not that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, but that the world is getting warmer and people are getting colder.

Don't tie your heart to a person who has nothing to offer you. Let it go. It might hurt for a while but when you get over it, you'll see it gets better.

The amount of abuse we tolerate in a partner is equal to the amount of abuse we heap on ourselves. If a woman is used to telling herself that she's ugly, that she fails at everything she tries, and that she's not capable of performing in the world without someone holding her hand, then she'll accept--and even feel most comfortable with--a man who reinforces these beliefs.

Most relationships fail because we spend too much time pointing out each others mistakes and not enough time enjoying each others company.

Don't let a bad moment ruin your day. Think of it as a bad minute, not a bad day and you'll be okay. I promise.

You don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of.

Always find a reason to laugh. It may not add years to your life but will surely add life to your years.

Be patient, one day someone’s going to walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.

Never assume that every critic is a hater. Not everyone is hating on you. Some people are telling you the truth.

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are. The second greatest is being happy with what you find.

Rather than think that you need a new man, you need to become a new woman. You need to put your own fulfillment and pleasures first on the list. Remember, there is a little child within who needs your love and acceptance. The key to your happiness is the decision to be happy. Stay present: every second, every minute, and every hour. Every day of your life is full of present moments of infinite value and wonder.

When someone tells you it can’t be done, it’s more a reflection of their limitations, not yours.

The more secure you are with yourself, the less time you spend trying to tear others down.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.

Don’t let someone change who you are, to become what they need.

The hardest thing in life is letting go of what you thought was real.

Go your own way, have the willingness to go beyond what is familiar and safe, reinvent yourself, risk everything to fulfill your dreams, even if it means doing it alone.

It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.

It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at that line for the rest of your life.

We fight each other during the tough times instead of fighting the tough times together.

Don’t make a promise unless you can keep it, don’t say something unless you mean it, don’t act out unless it’s needed.

Sometimes, people with the worst pasts end up creating the best futures.

If the feelings aren’t there, then you shouldn’t be either.

Beauty attracts the eye but personality captures the heart.

You cannot heal a lifetime of pain overnight, be patient with yourself, it takes as long as it takes to rebuild yourself.

SMILE. It's the best thing you can do to irritate those who wish to destroy you.

Don’t ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.

There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with what you have.

Real beauty is not what the eyes can behold but what the heart can hold. What we see with our eyes will vanish someday, but what we store in our heart will forever stay.

Don’t try to understand everything. Sometimes it is not meant to be understood, just accepted.

Words are to be spoken, emotions are to be felt, but actions are to be done.

I love myself, and that is why it is possible to love you. Self love is the cure to self hate. Self love can cure the world.

Sometimes even the greatest love has to end so your destiny can begin.

Don’t marry a man unless you’d be proud to have a son exactly like him.

Never think that what you have to offer is insignificant. There will always be someone out there that needs what you have to give.

The things you say about others, also say a lot about you.

No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.

There’s a big difference between who we love, who we settle for, and who we’re meant for.

Don't lower your standards. Instead, wait for people to rise up to your expectations.

Without communication, there is no relationship. Without respect, there is no love. Without trust, there is no reason to continue.

I’ve seen a baby cry and seconds later he laughs. The beauty of pain, is pain never lasts.

Pain is a part of life, it is what makes us human; it shapes us the same as love and laughter. You don’t have to forget, but you cannot let it destroy you. Conquer the pain, don’t let it conquer you.

Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them. Joke over your troubles but gather strength from them. Have fun with your difficulties but overcome them.

Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.

You can’t blame someone for walking away if you didn’t do anything to make them stay.

Everything comes with a price. You can never gain something if you don’t sacrifice something of equal value.

Don’t give up. The beginning is always the hardest.

It’s not about who you’ve been with, it’s about who you end up with. Sometimes the heart doesn’t know what it wants until it finds what it needs.

Don't stress over what could've been, chances are if it should've been, it would've been.

Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.

Don’t question why you are single. Question why there hasn’t been anyone out there that made you want to change that.

Some people come into your life for a season, and some come for a lifetime. Never mix seasonal people up with lifetime expectations.

Love people for who they are, not for who you hope they will be someday.

When the goal seems big and the plan looks tough, just start and soon the next thing you need to do will look possible. Step by step you can get through anything.

I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

Ultimately success is not something you achieve; it is who you are, it is a way of being.

If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you.

When it's yours, love it. One day it might not be yours, so value and appreciate it while it's still yours.

Each morning when you wake up, before you do anything else, SMILE.

Maturity has nothing to do with age. Maturity comes from experiences, mistakes, learning, and understanding.

Don't let your struggle become your identity.

Happiness is a choice. Yeah, things in life make it difficult sometimes. But at the end of the day, you control your own happiness.

Remind yourself that it's perfectly okay not to be perfect.

Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.

You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

We are always waiting for something, for it to be the weekend, to be finished school, till summer, till we are 18. We are always god damn waiting and what’s sad is we miss every beautiful moment in the ‘present’ because we spend our whole lives waiting for tomorrow and for the future, we end up skipping our whole lives, and one day we will spend our last day waiting on a tomorrow that will never come.

Very few people have perfect vision - the ability to look through the flaws and see only the best in a person.

You are a victim of the rules and beliefs you live by.

Sometimes you don’t realize your own strengths until someone tries to take advantage of your weaknesses.

Make your anger so expensive that no one can afford it, and make your happiness so cheap, everyone can get it for free.

A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be.

I don't have time to hate people who hate me, because I'm too busy loving people who love me.

People may hate you for being different and not living up to society's standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course! Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back.

Forgive them, even if they are not sorry. Holding on to anger only hurts you, not them.

People don't change, their priorities do.

Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.

The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day.

Forgiving doesn't imply that what someone did to you is okay, it simply means that you're not going to let what they did ruin your happiness.

Be thankful for all you have, because you never know what will happen next.

A relationship is more than finding the right person, it’s also about being the right person.

You can't expect things to be the same after so much has changed.