We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft clods of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now...but it will grow again...like the trees. May serenity circle on silent wings and catch the whisper of the winds.
~Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~Carl Sagan
By failing to prepare, you are preparing for failure.
~Benjamin Franklin
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
~Henry David Thoreau
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
~Dante Aligheiri
The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins?
~Edgar Allen Poe
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
~Benjamin Franklin
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~Mahatma Ghandi
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~Albert Einstein
The best way out is always through.
~Robert Frost
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
~Vince Lombardi
It's dangerous business going out your front door.
~JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
~Maya Angelou
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
~Abraham Lincoln
Little by little, one travels far.
~JRR Tolkien
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble... there lies your treasure.
~Joseph Campbell
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
~Michael Konda
Wisdom begins in wonder.
~Socrates
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
~Joseph Campbell
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
~Henry David Thoreau
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus (ka-moo)
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
~Winston Churchill
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
~Abraham Lincoln
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
~John Muir
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
~John Muir
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
~Helen Keller
Wise men talk because they have something to say: fools, because they have to say something.
~Plato
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
Courage is the price that LIFE exacts for granting peace.
~Amelia Earhart
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
~Carl Jung (yung)
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
~Charles Caleb Colton
The surest way to corrupt youths are to instruct them to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
~JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
~Abraham Lincoln
Faithless are they that say farewell when the road darkens.
~JRR Tolkien
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
~Epicurus (circa 300 BCE)
All we have to do is decide what to do with the time we are given.
~JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
A person who dares to waste one hour of their has not discovered the value of life.
~Charles Darwin
What you are is what you have done, and what you will be is what you do now.
~The Buddha
One must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Mahatma Ghandi
Whatever comes, this too shall pass.
~Ela Wheeler Wilcox
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
~Abraham Lincoln
Every man is guilty of the good they didn't do.
~Voltaire
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
~Aristotle
He is able who thinks he is able.
~The Buddha
Courage is not the absence of fear. But rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~Ambrose Redmoon (James Neil Hollingworth)
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
~Robert F. Kennedy
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
~Nelson Mandela
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hatred, and hatred leads to suffering.
~Jedi Master Yoda, Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
~JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
~Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
~Albert Einstein
It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled youthful curiosity, for this delicate plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
~Albert Einstein
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
~The Buddha
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
~Albert Einstein
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
~General Douglas MacArthur
Some people are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
~William Shakespeare