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“A good teacher opens the door for you, but you must enter the room by yourself.”
— Zen Proverb
“No man is happy unless he believes he is.”
— Publilius Syrus
“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
— Epictetus
“What addiction really has to do with is the speed of rewards.”
— Natasha Schull
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
— Aristotle
“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”
— Ronald Reagan
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
— Socrates
“It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Unity is strength... when two individuals think one way; that directly increases strength.”
— Henry Ford
“Fear, uncertainty, and discomfort are your compasses toward growth.”
— Celestine Chua
“There is no significance in life without struggle.”
— Lolly Daskal
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
— Aristotle
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
— Albus Dumbledore
“The smallest act of honesty begins the chain of trust”
— Honoré de Balzac
“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them.”
— Confucius
“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
— Mae West
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
— Albert Einstein

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