These are lines I found on other sites or in other forms of literature. None of them are my own.

TRUTH
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker

History is a lie agreed upon - Napoleon Bonaparte.

A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

GOOD, NICE, HAPPINESS, HELPFULNESS
Never frown even when you're sad because you never know when someone may be falling in love with your smile.

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits on your shoulder - N. Hawthorne (the same goes for love)

Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than look back.

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be, and you help him become, what he is capable of being - Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Never look down on anybody, unless you are going to help them up. --Rev. Jesse Jackson

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi

Many people lose their tempers merely by seeing you keep yours.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. - Immanuel Kant

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks, even if your teeth are crooked.

Don't forget to be kind to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it --Hebrews 13:2

MOTIVATION, RESPONSIBILITY
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -Lao-Tsu, The Way of Lao-Tsu

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.-Will Rogers

If you don't stand for something,you'll fall for anything. - Maya Angelou

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds - Francis Bacon.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

If you ever need a helping hand, there is one at the end of your arm.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win this world is for enough good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. --Mother Teresa

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. --Benjamin Franklin

It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit. --Robert Yates
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. --James Dean

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WORRY
If you have time to worry, you have time to pray.

Worry is like a rocking chair, it will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. --Unknown

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. --Robert Frost (1874-1963) American poet

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. --Cullen Hightower

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night. --Unknown

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. --Mother Teresa

BLAME
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. --John Burroughs

To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so. --Unknown

IGNORANCE
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

ABSTINENCE
Sex is the question, no is the answer.

LOVE
Absence is to love as wind is to fire, it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.

Not many men will be willing to die for love these days, but you can't escape the fact that millions are dying daily from the very lack of it.

If you love something set it free, if it comes back it was meant to be . If it doesn't then it was never meant.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey - Lord Byron, The Giaour,1813

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it --Swedish Proverb

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. --Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)

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FRIENDSHIP, TRUST , ETC.
Love thy neighbor as yourself, but chose your neighborhood. -Louise Beal

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. - Samuel Butler

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar Watson Howe

A friend will see you through when others see you are through.

A true friend walks in when the world walks out.

Never explain-your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. --Elbert Hubbard

Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay - Josh Billings.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties - Aesop.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody - John Churton Collings.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so- Lord Chesterfield.

Beware of the fury of the patient man - John Dryden.

WAR
For peace, we must prepare for war. --Bobby Jagdev

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. --Albert Einstein

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. --Jeannette Rankin first woman Member of Congress