Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

Knowledge
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know. And the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
Joyce Cary

Laugh
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can hold back the tide. Both are forces of nature.
William Rotsler

I live by this credo: Have a little laugh and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough.
Red Skelton

Laughter
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
Mort Walker

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Josh Billings

Laurels
A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.
Dolly Parton

Leaders
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
Tom Peters in Fast Company

Leadership
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
David Gergen (U.S. News & World Report)

Leadership is daring to step into the unknown.
Stephen Hawking

You cannot be a leader, and ask others to follow you, unless you know how to follow too.
Sam Rayburn

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
Dennis A. Peer

Learn - Try - Chance
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust

Learning
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers

Life
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost

This is your life. It's the only one you get. So no excuses and no do-overs.
Ann Richards (to her grandchildren and thousands of young people)

Life - Living
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau

Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to.
Arnold Glasow

Life - Problems
To the question of life, you are the only answer: To the problems of life, you are the only solution.
Author unknown

Light
I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
O.G. Mandino

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

Listening
Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.
Gov. Jesse Ventura

Living - Learning
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

Look - Direction
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber

Love
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers

You gotta dance like nobody's watching, dream like you will live forever, live like your going to die tomorrow, and love like it's never going to hurt.
Meme Grifsters

Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of your partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care.
Carl S. Avery

I loved someone enough that I learned to let them go. Their happiness mattered more to me than my happiness meant to me
M. Kopp

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love isn't what makes the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones

Love
Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.
Annie Sullivan

Love - Faith
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm

Love - God - First
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.... When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
C.S. Lewis

Love - Gravity
Gravity cannot be responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Love - Hate
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Love - Pleasure
There is more pleasure in loving than in being loved.
Thomas Fuller

Love - Power
From its universal source, love permeates everything. It is the ultimate power, because without using force, love brings everything to it. Compared to love, all other forms of power are feeble.
Deepak Chopra

Luck - Preparation
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur