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“To be human is to be 'a' being, that is, a being that has learned to be a person.”
— Peter Sloterdijk
“The future depends on what you do today.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“yeah this could actually be a dope rap beat”
— Leslie Hochsztein
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”
— Mario Puzo
“True redemption is when guilt leads to good.”
— Khaled Hosseini
“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The good of the people is the chief law.”
— Cicero
“Adversity is the tempering of one's mettle. Without it, we cannot know any true meaning in our accomplishments.”
— Ming-Dao Deng
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
— Thomas Sowell
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
— Confucius
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
— Salvador Dalí
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
— Viktor Frankl
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown”
— Osho
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The groundwork of all happiness is good health.”
— Leigh Hunt
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
— Robert Collier
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
— Langston Hughes
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”
— Margaret J. Wheatley

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