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“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
— Pablo Picasso
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
— William Shakespeare
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Actually, he was dead already. You didn't have to shoot him. It was a perfectly ordinary death.”
— Mark Twain
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
— Yogi Berra
“If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.”
— Criss Jami
“Life must be rich and full of loving-it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. ”
— Jack Kerouac
“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

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