Beauty
If we allow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things are extraordinary.
~Dean Koontz
Truth
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
~Leo Tolstoy
Goodness
It is not how much we do but how much love we put into what we do.
~Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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