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“We forge the chains we wear in life.”
Charles Dickens
“I love catching people in the act. That's why I always whip open doors.”
— Dwight Schrute
“When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
Anatole France
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
Josh Billings
“There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.”
— David Letterman
“The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. ”
George Washington
“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
Criss Jami
““Perfection? Being the most human you can be””
— Giovanni Morassutti
“Don't let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
Dalai Lama
“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”
Peter Drucker
“Bring a timer.”
Steve Jobs
“Failing is another stepping stone to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey
“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”
Confucius
“Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you -- and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.”
— Abdul'-Baha
“All great peoples are conservative.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near.”
Paulo Coelho
“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
Steve Maraboli

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