The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
-Aiden Nowlan

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear.
-Glenn Clark

Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past.
-Landrum Bolling

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
-Nicholas Murray Butler

Rejoice in what you have; sigh not for what you lost.
-Abraham Hasdai

It is the lot of man to suffer, it is also his fortune to forget.
-Benjamin Disraeli

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either--but right through every human heart.
-Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.
-W. Beran Wolfe

To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active-memoried, and persistently experimental.
-Leo Stein

Every righteous man has an Eden for himself.
-Eleazar b. Menahem
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