A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
I’d like to add some beauty to life,” said Anne dreamily. “I don’t exactly want to make people KNOW more… though I know that IS the noblest ambition… but I’d love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me… to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn’t been born.
If you’re serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.
To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don’t worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They’ll never get to be swans
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
In the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.
Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
and I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it’s true
That who is what and what is who.”
– Winnie-the-Pooh
We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves.
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
… just because [butterflies’] lives were short didn’t mean they were tragic… See, they have a beautiful life.
Maybe some things aren’t meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness
To care about your outward appearance is important, but what’s more important is to have a beautiful soul.
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we’re afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we’ve always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too. I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness.
People trust their eyes above all else – but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there
Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t… It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
A photograph shouldn’t be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used–not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.
Take Care Of Your Tongue Like The Way You Take Care Of Gold & Silver.
A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.
How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement – no matter how temporary.
Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none.
When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.