Quotes

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory” — Louise Glück

“Love is the quality of attention we pay to things”
— J.D. McClatchy, Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” — Mark Twain

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, it is to create something that will.”
— Chuck Palahniuk

“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — unknown

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” — Maya Angelou

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Bertrand Russell

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” — Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The fears we don’t face become our limits.” — Robin Sharma

“Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.” — Wayne Dyer

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.” — Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

“Practice like you’ve never won, but perform like you’ve never lost.”
— Michael Jordan

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
— Michael Jordan

“Mathematics requires a small dose, not of genius, but of an imaginative freedom which, in a larger dose, would be insanity.” — Angus K. Rodgers

“At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.” — Terence Tao

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“How did it get so late so soon?” — Dr. Seuss

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S.Eliot

“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — André Gide

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
— T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets