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“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
— Richard Bach
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
— Albert Camus
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
— Samuel Johnson
“If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
— Paulo Coelho
“I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.”
— Samuel Beckett
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
— Molière
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
— Herodotus
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
— Plato
“Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.”
— Unknown
“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”
— Keri Russell
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'”
— Sigmund Freud
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
— Dalai Lama
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”
— Nelson Mandela
“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Identification with our mind causes thought to become compulsive.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
— Buddha
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.”
— Samuel Butler
“Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to speak well of ourselves but to speak well of other people.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
— C. S. Lewis
“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
— Voltaire
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
— Isaac Newton

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