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“Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Steve Jobs
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ”
Voltaire
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
Robert Frost
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
“If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily.”
Chinese Proverb
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
William Arthur Ward
“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
Jane Austen
“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”
Dave Barry
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. ”
Seneca
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
Winston Churchill
“You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.”
Deepak Chopra
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action.”
Mark Manson
“While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.”
Dan Millman
“Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.”
— Unknown
“We cannot expect to be happy always... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
George Eliot
“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.”
Robin Sharma
“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive.”
Criss Jami

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