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“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.”
— William Congreve
“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.”
— Rachel Naomi Remen
“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
Steve Jobs
“We're made of star stuff.”
Carl Sagan
“We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.”
Muhammad Ali
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
Gary Keller
“Discipline is the refinement of consciousness.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
H. G. Wells
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
Herman Melville
“I live by letting things happen.”
Dogen
“The best way to understanding is a few good examples.”
Isaac Newton
“Life is simply what our feelings do to us.”
— Honore de Balzac
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. ”
Buddha
“The possibilities are endless!”
— Tim Alman
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
Plato
“All great achievements require time.”
Maya Angelou
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”
George Orwell
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Mark Twain
“You must be willing to do what others won't do, to have what others won't have.”
Les Brown
“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”
Heraclitus
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
Gilbert Chesterton
“If you're not confused, I don't think you understand.”
Charlie Munger

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