- A friend is a second self. ~Aristotle
- Patience is also a form of action. ~Auguste Rodin
- Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. ~Zadie Smith
- In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. ~Flora Edwards
- Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. ~Og Mandino
- Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. ~Emma Donoghue, Irish novelist
- Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
- The fierce urgency of now. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The creative adult is the child who has survived. ~Ursula LeGuin
- Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. ~Deepak Chopra
- It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary
- We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams. ~H.G. Wells
- There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ~Elie Wiesel
- We cannot spend the day in explanation. ~Emerson
- It is the unseen and the spiritual in people, that determines the outward and the actual. ~ Oswald Chambers
- When the heart and mind focus on things unseen — that’s when there’s a visible change in us. ~ Ann Voskamp
- Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ~Elie Wiesel
- We can be in only one of two states: Either our minds are running us or we are running our minds.
- I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. ~Brian Selznick, Author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. Margaret Wise Brown
- If you ever want to know what a creative person’s mind feels like, imagine a browser with 2,857 tabs open. ALL.THE.TIME.
- Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it. ~Richard Russo
- You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. ~John Green
- Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. ~George R.R. Martin
- The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. ~Djuna Barnes
- “Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.... We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are…. we forget that we have forgotten. ~Chesterton
- “In knowing God, each of us also knows himself. ~John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion French Edition, 1560
- I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. ~Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. ~Robert Quillen
- How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
- To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. ~Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ~Henry Ford
- Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue. ~Franklin Jones
- Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. ~ Brene Brown
- A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. ~Novalis
- I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once. ~Thomas Wolfe
- Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ~Anne Bradstreet
- The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it) ~Lewis Carroll
- Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.~Robert Louis Stevenson
- A goal without a plan is just a wish. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ~William Arthur Ward
- We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win. ~Edward Gibbon, June 27, 1787: On this day, between the hours of eleven and twelve at night, Edward Gibbon finished writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which he had begun twenty years prior. He celebrated by taking a stroll in his garden.
- You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. ~John Green
- She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS. ~Henry James
- Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. ~Louis L’Amour
- Find out who you are and do it on purpose. ~Dolly Parton
- "Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." ~Bernard Williams
- Fiction is the truth inside the lie. ~Stephen King
- "Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters." ~Margaret Wheatley
- Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. ~Penelope Lively
- "Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter. ~Cecelia Ahern, Thanks For The Memories
- In a time of destruction, create something. ~Maxine Hong Kingston
- Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. ~Albert Einstein
- Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes? ~Evelyn Lau
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~Carl Jung
- Patience is a conquering virtue. ~Geoffrey Chaucer
- "There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." ~Aristotle
- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~Carl Sagan
- Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy. ~Eskimo Saying
- A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ~Robert Frost
- One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ~Arnold H. Glasgow
- You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~Henry Ford
- The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ~Mahatma Gandhi
- Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. ~Albert Schweitzer
- If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. ~Lao Tzu
- Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. ~Nora Ephron
- The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain
- One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks." ~Jack Penn
- The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. ~Daniel Defoe
- "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." ~Walt Disney
- "Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are." ~Niccolo Machiavelli
- "The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider" ~ Vygotsky, 1985
- Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. ~Henry David Thoreau
- We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~Carl Sandburg
- A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. ~N. Scott Momaday
- Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. ~Sue Grafton
- "Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- That which you believe becomes your world. ~Richard Matheson
- The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read. ~Tom Clancy
- A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. ~Charles Baudelaire
- She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. ~Barbara Kingsolver
- The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. ~Ernest Hemingway
- But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together. ~Leslie Marmon Silko
- You see, but you do not observe. ~Sherlock Holmes
- Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore
- Language is fossil poetry. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If more people valued home over gold, the world would be a merrier place. ~Thorin Oakenshield
- She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter. ~Joy Williams
- Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. ~Clarence Day
- The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don?t have any. ~Alice Walker
- The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. ~Henri Nouwen
- That which you believe becomes your world. ~Richard Matheson
- It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. ~Gertrude Stein
- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. ~Edward Abbey
- Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. ~Anthony Burgess
- Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? ~Thoreau
- He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. ~Seneca
- Gratitude is a twofold love: love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest. ~Henry Dyke
- Most people have to talk so they won't hear. ~May Sarton
- For it is in giving that we receive. ~Francis of Assisi
- It is solved by walking~ Saint Augustine
- Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present. ~Danielle LaPorte
- Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. ~Barbara W. Tuchman
- Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc
- The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. ~Steve Jobs
- To keep faith with life is to experience that everything-- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence. ~Roger Housden
- Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher. ~Jack Kornfield
- It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ~Oscar Wilde
- The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ~Mark Twain
- To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ~Winston Churchill
- That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly. ~George Saunders
- If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. ~African Proverb
- We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." ~Joseph Campbell
- 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. ~Dostoyevsky
- Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. ~Willa Cather
- For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. Edmund Spenser, English poet
- Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. ~Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder,
- Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser
- Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter. ~Proust, Finding Time Again
- There are two kinds of people in this life. Those who walk into a room and say, 'Well, here I am.' And those who walk in and say, 'Ahh, there you are.' Let us each strive to be an 'Ahh, there you are' person'. ~Leil Lowndes
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. ~Abraham Lincoln
- A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education. ~Paulo Freire
- Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~William Faulkner
- You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. ~William Faulkner
- It’s not paranoia, if they are really out to get you... ~ Joseph Heller
- If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. ~Ivan Turgenev
- In a time of destruction, create something. ~Maxine Hong Kingston
- After all is said and done, more is said than done. ~Aesop
- If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable opinion of himself. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. ~Laurie Halse Anderson
- Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. ~Albert Einstein
- Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up. ~Thomas Wolfe
- Never give up...No one knows what's going to happen next. ~L. Frank Baum
- You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written— behind your silence and your suffering. ~Anne Rice
- Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves ~Laura Esquivel
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers. ~Ed Sullivan
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