What Some People Say – Quotes

(Most recently added quotes at the top of the list. My personal favorites are red.

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
~ John Updike

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~ John F. Kennedy

“Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.” ~Anthony J. D’Angelo

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” ~Winston Churchill

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

“I don’t think we’re really listening unless we’re willing to be changed by the other person.”
~ Alan Alda

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
~ Melody Beattie

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” ~ Henry Ford

“If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”
~ Maya Angelou

“What’s another word for thesaurus?” ~Steven Wright

“A mind at peace, a mind focused on not harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~Aristotle

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” ~ Lou Holtz

“Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities; our faith and our faithfulness; our patience and our resilience; and, in the end, our ultimate desires.” ― Sheri L. Dew

“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.” ― Jack Kerouac

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
― Edmund Burke

“It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”
― Honore de Balzac

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” ― H. G. Wells

“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Beware the fury of a patient man.” ― John Dryden

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
― Winston Churchill

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” ― Confucius

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
― William Hazlitt

“Good questions outrank easy answers.” ― Paul Samuelson

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow

“To see things in the seed, that is genius.” ― Lao Tzu

” I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” ― Anne Frank

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” ― Michel de Montaigne

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” ― Epictetus

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” ― Leo Tolstoy

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Hitch your wagon to a star.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.”
― John Paul Jones

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“When one must, one can.” ― Charlotte Whitton

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
― Winston Churchill

“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” ― Tertullian

“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” ― Francis of Assisi

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ― Viktor E. Frankl

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” ― Socrates

“Diplomacy is the art of saying, ‘Nice doggie,’ until you can find a rock.” ― Will Rogers

“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.” ― Victor Borge

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.” ― Paul Cezanne

“Less is only more where more is no good.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” ― Josh Billings

“History is a vast early warning system.” ― Norman Cousins

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” ― John Dryden

“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.” ― Stewart Udall

“You are remembered for the rules you break.” ― Douglas MacArthur

“I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.” ― Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.” ― Robert Smithson

“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.” ― Jerzy Kosinski

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.” ― Robert Quillen

“Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.” ― James Thurber

“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.” ― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t forget to love yourself.” ― Soren Kierkegaard

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” ― John Dewey

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” ― Desmond Tutu

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
― Edith Wharton

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.”
― Herman Melville

“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” ― Anne Sexton

“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.” ― John Steinbeck

“Childhood is a short season.” ― Helen Hayes

“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” ― J. Paul Getty

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” ― Eric Hoffer

“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”
― Ogden Nash

“Life is a long lesson in humility.” ― James M. Barrie

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.” ― Tina Turner

“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” ― Robert Green Ingersoll

“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” ― Sophocles

“Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Be not simply good – be good for something.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” ― Henry Ward Beecher

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” ― George S. Patton

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” ― Johannes Brahms

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” ― Voltaire

“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” ― Tom Brokaw

“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.” ― Milton Berle

“Nothing can be done except little by little.” ― Charles Baudelaire

“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.” ― Alexander the Great

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” ― Francis Bacon

“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” ― Saadi

“Tears of joy are like the summer raindrops pierced by sunbeams.” ― Hosea Ballou

“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.” ― Mother Teresa

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ― Buddha

Second Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Definition of militia: “mi·li·tia [məˈliSHə] NOUN a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.” Put them together: The US military “is raised from the civil population.” The “well regulated Militia” is our military – Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. Former Chief Justice Warren Burger “2nd Amendment Fraud”: https://youtu.be/Eya_k4P-iEo ― Bill of Rights (US), Bing definition search, YouTube

“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” ― Hosea Ballou

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” ― Buddha

“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.” ― Arnold Bennett

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ― Joseph Addison

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.”
― Daniel Webster

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” ― Virginia Satir

“What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.” ― Ray Charles

“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.”
― Alan Alda

“Perfection is the child of time.” ― Joseph Hall

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” ― Robin Williams

“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” ― Pearl Bailey

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” ― Julia Child

“Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.” ― Helen Rowland

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” ― Steve Jobs

“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” ― Thomas Jefferson

“The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.” ― Voltaire

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” ― Ellen Glasgow

“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.” ― Booth Tarkington

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ― Pablo Picasso

“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.” ― Sitting Bull

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ” ― Mother Teresa

“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” ― William Feather

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” ― Amelia Earhart

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
― Andy Warhol

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston Churchill

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” ― Mary Oliver

“The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” ― Alfred Whitney Griswold

“When you don’t have to ask for permission innovation thrives.” ― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” ― Leo Buscaglia

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” ― Unknown

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” ― Mark Twain

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.” ― Albert Pike

“To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Of all possessions, a friend is the most precious.” ― Herodotus

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.” ― William Penn

“When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” ― John Ruskin

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” ― Benjamin Spock

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss

“You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.” ― Kiera Cass, The Elite

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” ― Victor Hugo

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss

“Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.” ― Mary Astell

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” ― Robert Collier

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“You exist only in what you do.” ― Federico Fellini

“The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.” ― Voltaire

“Freedom of choice is great! There’s a big snag, though. There’s a rather large group of people, some with a great deal of power, who think that the only people who are allowed to make choices are they, themselves, and others who agree with them. That is NOT freedom of choice. If only a few have the ability, then it is not a freedom, it is a restriction.” ― BB Curtis

“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” ― Bobby Knight

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.” ― Balthus

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“In a good bookroom, you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

“Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.” ― Thomas a Kempis

“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
― William Butler Yeats

“The true art of memory is the art of attention.” ― Samuel Johnson

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ― Sharon Begley

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ― Nicolas Chamfort

“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” ― Philip Sidney

“Truth builds edifices that can stand a thousand years.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Study the past if you would define the future.” ― Confucius

“A will finds a way.” ― Orison Swett Marden

“Without labor nothing prospers.” ― Sophocles

“Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“What I didn’t know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.” ― David Hockney

“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” ― Pablo Picasso

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” ― Clare Boothe Luce

“Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top.” ― Maxime Lagacé

“Reality continues to ruin my life.” ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“The secret of success or happiness is doing something you love, doing it well, and being recognized for it.” — George Carlin

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” — Leo Tolstoy

“I’m rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I’m tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we’s comin from or goin to or why. I’m tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I’m tired of all the times I’ve wanted to help and couldn’t. I’m tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it’s the pain. There’s too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can’t.” ― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” ― The Buddha

“Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow;” ― Mary Anne Radmacher

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

“Today I choose the higher road – the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it. Sauté it. Whatever. MAKE.” — Joss Whedon

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ― George Eliot

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Love me when I least deserve it because that’s when I really need it.” — Swedish Proverb

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel

“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.”
— Unknown

“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.” — Lord Chesterfield

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ― Hippocrates

“The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of not the circumstances.” — Unknown

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain

“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.” ― Dr. Wayne D. Dyer

“Stand Tall, Stand Proud. Know that you are unique and magnificent. You do not need the approval of others.” ― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ― Chinese Proverb

“Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” — Isabelle Lafleche

“Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” ― Charles M. Schulz

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” ― Mark Twain

“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.”
— Michele Ruiz

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” ― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Life’s too short to be anything… but happy.” ― Anonymous

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes―understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”
― Arianna Huffington

“Simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.” ― don Miguel Ruiz

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” ― John Lennon

“Impossible is just an opinion.” — Paulo Coelho

“A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.” ― Cicero

“The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.” ― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“You can waste your lives drawing lines, or you can live your life crossing them.”
― Shonda Rhimes

“So your father, or your mother, never thought you were good enough – SO WHAT?”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.”
— Unknown

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.”
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.” — Darren L. Johnson

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.” ― Tupac Shakur

“Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.” ― Kamari aka Lyrikal

“Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” ― John C. Maxwell

“Whosoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.” ― Margaret Mead

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” ― Michael Jordan

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” — Isabelle Lafleche

“Simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”
― don Miguel Ruiz

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“At any given moment you have the power to say: this is not how the story is going to end.”
― Unknown

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” ― Henry Ward Beecher

“A healer’s power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.”
― Eric Micha’el Leventhal

“You’re so much stronger than your excuses.” ― Unknow

“Don’t compare yourself to others. Be like the sun and the moon and shine when it’s your time.”
― Unknown

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle

“Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up, and remain hopeful.” ― Unknown

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi

“Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.” ― Margaret Walker

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain

“No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.” ― Carrie Chapman Catt

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?” ― John Updike, Self-Consciousness

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ― Earl Nightingale

“‘Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.” ― Sidney Sheldon

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters―one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” ― John F. Kennedy

“Letting go doesn’t mean giving up. It means moving on.” ― Anonymous

“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” ― Vincent Van Gogh

“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” ― Stephen King

“We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.” ― Lee Ann Womack I Hope You Dance

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” ― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” ― A.C. Benson

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift

“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.” ― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft\

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” ― George Orwell, 1984

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ― Aristotle

“That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.” ― Stephen King, The Stand

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
― Honore de Balzac

“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” ― Stephen King

“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.” ― Jean Racine

“Everyone you admire was once a beginner.” ― Jack Butcher

“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better after all.” ― Stephen King

“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.” ― Thomas Mann

“Relax. One bad chapter does not mean it’s the end of the book.” ― Paulo Coelho

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.” ― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.”
― Jim Rohn

” Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” ― Ovid

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Nature can do more than physicians.” ― Oliver Cromwell

“Curiosity and questions will get you further than confidence and answers.” ― Maxime Lagacé

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

“God always punishes us for what we can’t imagine.” ― Stephen King, Duma Key

“Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.” ― Jane Austen

“No one is ever actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”
― Terry Pratchett

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.” ― Stephen King, The Body

“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.” ― Charles Buxton

“All my successes have been built on my failures.” ― Disraeli

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ― Albert Einstein

“A coward judges all he sees by what he is.” ― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.” ― Ian Somerhalder

“I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.” ― Steven Spielberg

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“A person who doesn’t learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.”
― Robert Baden-Powell

“Calmness, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and purity: these are the disciplines of the mind.”
― Bhagavad Gita

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius

“I can’t understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there’s already so much pain in the world.” ― Stephen King, Joyland

“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.” ― Charles Buxton

“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary” ― Oscar Wilde

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?” ― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.” ― Plato

“Without a goal, you can’t score.” ― Johan Cruyff

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ― Herman Melville

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― Stephen King

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!” ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“Hate is never conquered by hate. Hate is only conquered by love.” ― The Buddha

“We must take care of our families wherever we find them.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.” ― Stephen King, Dreamcatcher

‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.” ― William Shakespeare

“A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.” ― Darren L. Johnson

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ― Sharon Begley

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Adults are the real monsters.” ― Stephen King, It

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
― Madeleine L’Engle

“It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven’t done badly. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
― Stephen Hawking

“When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.” ― Jan Chozen Bays

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ― Nicolas Chamfort

“The only mortal sin is giving up.” ― Stephen King

“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.” ― Washington Irving

“People only see what they are prepared to see.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.” ― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“I can resist everything except temptation.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Determination mixed with resourcefulness is nearly unstoppable.” ― Shane Parrish

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” ― Francis Bacon

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'” ― C. S. Lewis

“Don’t walk in front of me. I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me. I may not lead. Walk beside me. Just be my friend.” ― Albert Camus

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Write your sad times in sand, write your good times in stone.” ― George Bernard Shaw

“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.” ― Conan O’Brien

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein

“The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.” ― Darren L. Johnson

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.” ― Walter Savage Landor

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” ― Dale Carnegie

“Karma has no menu. You get served what you deserve.” ― Gary Goodridge

“Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”
― Thornton Wilder

“A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.” ― Darren L. Johnson

“Confident people know what matters. They know when to ignore other people’s opinions”
― Ryan Holiday

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
― Thomas Merton

“Confucius might have said: Once frightened, twice smelly in armpit.” ― Anonymous humor

“There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.” ― Louis XIV

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
― Helen Keller

“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
― St. Jerome

“I have always kind of imagined paradise will be a kind of library.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.” ― Galileo Galilei

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
― Maya Angelou

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise, you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” ― Louis D. Brandeis

May I humbly add to the Brandeis quote that this includes all aspects of the law: 1) legislation, 2) enforcement and 3) adjudication. ― Bobbi (Bartsch) Curtis

“Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.” ― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top.” ― Maxime Lagacé

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou

“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
― Swami Sivananda

“‘Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.”
― Karen Salmansohn

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato

“When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.” — John Ruskin

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.” — Socrates

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” ― Anne Frank

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” ― Stephen Hawking

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.” ― Alexis Carrel

“Doing something for yourself gives motivation but doing something for others gives meaning.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.” ― Walt Whitman

“Living well is the best revenge.” ― George Herbert

“Stay centered by accepting whatever happens to you. This is the ultimate.” ― Chuang Tzu

“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.” ― Jules Renard

“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” ― Sun Tzu

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.” ― Neil Gaiman

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A compassionate person sees himself or herself in every being.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” ― Indira Gandhi

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ― Pablo Picasso

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Stress and confusion come from being busy. Peace and clarity come from slowing down and stilling your waters.” ― Maxime Lagacé

“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.” ― Tecumseh

“Strength is a matter of a made up mind.” ― John Beecher

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Once you label me you negate me.” ― Soren Kierkegaard

“Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.”
― Jack Canfield

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” ― August Wilson

“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.” ― Edward Gibbon

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” ― Bruce Lee

“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.” ― Abigail Van Buren

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” ― H. G. Wells

“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” ― Helen Keller

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.” ― Confucius

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ― Plato

“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” ― Florence Nightingale

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” ― Steve Martin

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ― Albert Einstein

“What do you hang on the walls of your mind?” ― Eve Arnold

“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.” ― Sylvia Boorstein

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.” ― Bob Hope

“First you accept, then you become peaceful.” ― Maxime Lagacé

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.” ― Gloria Steinem

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ― e. e. cummings

“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.” ― Erica Jong

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu

“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.” ― Gilda Radner

“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30 percent of their ice cream.”
― Bill Murray

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.” ― Xenophon

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” ― Aesop

“The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
― Frank Herbert

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” ― Helen Keller

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou

“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” ― Henry J. Kaiser

“Existence wants you to be you.” ― Osho

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ― Alice Walker

“You may delay, but time will not.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” ― Charles Buxto

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.” ― Jawaharlal Nehru

“Little people are indifferent. Superior people are caring.” ― Maxime Lagacé

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
― Albert Einstein

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.” ― Joseph Addison

“A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever.” ― Maxime Lagacé

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“The best revenge is none. Heal, move on, and don’t become like those who hurt you.”
― Pamela Short

“Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.” ― Alfred A. Montapert

“Adversity reveals strength. Comfort reveals weakness.” ― James Clear

“To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward – that’s what one has to do.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” ― Leo Tolstoy

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ― Alan Watts

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” ― Joseph Campbell

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Jung

“Self-care is not a luxury, it’s a priority.” ― Kim Leyva

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” ― Audre Lorde

“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.” ― Leo Buscaglia

“My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it’s important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.” ― Niki Taylor

“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.” ― Marilyn Monroe

“Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.” ― Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things.” ― Albert Einstein

“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” ― Roy Disney

“A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.”
― Luis Barragan

“Going to the mountains is going home.” ― John Muir

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ― Albert Einstein

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.” ― Lord Byron

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” ― Jimi Hendrix

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

“Love the giver more than the gift.” ― Brigham Young

“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.” ― Confucius

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” ― John F. Kennedy

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” ― Sophocles

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.” ― Ranata Suzuki

“Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.” ― Meister Eckhart

“If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.” ― Marcus Aurelius

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.” ― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.”
― Gian Carlo Menotti

“Relax and take a deep breath. No one else knows what they’re doing either.” ― Ricky Gervais

“Some doors only open from the inside. Breath is a way of accessing that door.” ― Max Strom

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
― Erma Bombeck

“My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it’s important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.” ― Niki Taylor

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The secret to being productive is to work on the right thing — even if it’s at a slow pace.”
― James Clear

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” ― Bruce Lee

“Ideas shape the course of history.” ― John Maynard Keynes

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ” ― Michael Crichton

“An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.”
― George Jean Nathan

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” ― Steven Wright

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.”

― W. Edwards Deming

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” ― Jordan Belfort

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut” ― Albert Einstein

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
― Francis Bacon

“You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“The ones who say you can’t are too afraid you will.” ― Nike

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” ― George Herman Ruth

“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.” ― Martha Graham

“Purpose requires self-knowledge which requires silence.” ― Maxime Lagacé

“The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“Time passes irrevocably.” ― Virgil

“Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.” ― Chinese proverb

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.” ― Voltaire

“One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things. He moves in harmony with the present moment always knowing the truth of just what to do.” ― Lao Tzu

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.” ― Bob Hope

“One person of integrity can make a difference.” ― Elie Wiesel

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ― Mary Oliver

“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” ― Tim Burton

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.” ― Horace Walpole

“Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.” ― Steve Jobs

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.” ― Lawrence Durrell

“We must fall in love with ourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.” ― Mae West

“My light shines with vibrational power. I am in tune with myself and Mother Earth. I love myself and everyone around me.” ― Debbie A. Anderson

“We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.”
― Steve Irwin

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.” ― Carl Jung

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“There is no greater sin than desire, no greater curse than discontent. He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.” ― Lao Tzu

“Rule #6. Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.” ― Jordan Peterson

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“No one can figure out your worth but you.” ― Pearl Bailey

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” ― Robert J. Sawyer

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.” ― Carl Jung

“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.” ― Marcus Aurelius

“Our work is to integrate and eventually transcend darkness and light altogether by holding them equally in a state of interconnection.” ― Sasha Graham, Dark Wood Tarot

“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.” ― Og Mandino

“You may delay, but time will not.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Respect is what we owe; love, what we give” ― Philip James Bailey

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ― Sharon Begley

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates

“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” ― Boris Pasternak

“Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.” ― Nelson Mandela

“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.” ― Mae West

“One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Great hopes make great men.” ― Thomas Fuller

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde