Robert Louis Stevenson
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
Herbert Spencer
"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."
Kahlil Gibran
"The teacher is indeed wise who does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
Helen Keller
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
John Lennon
"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans."
Albert Einstein
"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Lao Tzu
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
William Blake
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way."
Marie Curie
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be under-
stood."
Thomas A. Edison
"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
Noam Chomsky
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."
Heraclitus
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
Immanuel Kant
"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
The Buddha
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Samuel Johnson
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."
George Berkeley
"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth ~ in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world ~ have not any subsistence without a mind."
Margaret Thatcher
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Anatole France
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
Aristotle
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."
Sigmund Freud
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
St. Augustine
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
Jimi Hendrix
"Peace will come when the power of love overcomes the love of power."
Thomas Merton
"Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone."
Albert Camus
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
Henry David Thoreau
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
Benjamin Franklin
"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
George Bernard Shaw
"The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer."