My Momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Forrest Gump · Tom Hanks's title role in Forrest Gump (1994) · Forrest to a stranger on the Savannah bus-stop bench; the American Film Institute ranks it among the top hundred movie quotes.

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

Forrest Gump · Tom Hanks's title role in Forrest Gump (1994) · Forrest to Jenny outside the Gump house in Greenbow, the night she turns down his proposal of marriage.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Mahatma Gandhi · Written in his weekly Young India in 1920, in a passage on love as the force we see between parent and child and must learn to use toward all that lives.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt · From the chapter "Learning to Be Useful" in her last book, written at 76.

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“My Momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."”

“I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.”

“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.”