Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. ― Ogwo David Emenike

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To love is an active verb.

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What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for? ― Thomas Sowell

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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable. ― Shannon L. Alder

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. — Maya Angelou

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When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

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