Mary Wilkins Freeman

"Kindness costs nothing but is priceless in value."

"Strength is forged in the furnace of adversity."

"Fear is often the guardian of what we hold most dear."

"Power without compassion becomes tyranny."

"Money can buy comfort but not contentment."

"Health is a state of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being."

"Adventure is the antidote to a stagnant life."

"The imagination is the only faculty that cannot be imprisoned."

"The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"We must learn to accept ourselves before we can truly accept others."

"The greatest gift we can give another is our honest attention."

"Freedom begins in the mind; all else follows."

"Time spent in worry is time wasted from living."

"A woman's place is wherever her talents and abilities lead her."

"The truth, however difficult, is always better than a comfortable lie."

"Nature teaches us more about ourselves than any philosophy could."

"Art is the expression of the soul without apology."

"Happiness is found not in grand gestures but in small kindnesses."

"Real strength lies in the ability to endure quietly."

"We underestimate the power of patience in all things."

"Change is inevitable; resistance to it is futile and exhausting."

"Hope is the one thing that cannot be taken from us."

"Love requires courage, for it demands we be vulnerable."

"Knowledge without compassion is merely information."

"The greatest education comes from living, not merely studying."

"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer."

"Peace is not the absence of struggle but acceptance of it."

"A family's strength is measured by its ability to forgive."