More important

"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright

Once we believe

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." - e e cummings

I understand

"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Leo Tolstoy

When you jump

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet." - Stanislaw J. Lec

Passion and love

"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place." - Ice T

In conversation

"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid." - Jonathan Swift

Nature is

"Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions." - Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Too cautious

"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all." - Jawaharlal Nehru

Each little mystery

"maybe this road we're on
is the very thing that's come between us
maybe it's the highway
to the very place that might just save us

Each little mystery is safe in your heart
you've got to wonder, is moving on the best that you can do?" - 7 Mary 3

Greatest of faults

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." - Thomas

A good laugh

"A good laugh is sunshine in the house." - William Makepeace Thackeray

Recollection

"Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome." - Unknown

What we must decide

"What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are." -
Edgar Friedenbar

Many who dare

"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say." - Cyril Connolly

The day came

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin

Do not...

"Promote yourself, but do not demote another." - Israel Salanter

Dwell...forget...

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - J. K. Rowling

Wiser advice

"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

No profit

"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well." - Publilius Syrus

He who praises

"He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have." - Don Juan Manuel

Adventure or inconvenience?

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." - G. K. Chesterton

Optimism flourishes

"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum." - Havelock Ellis

Worth living

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

Silence

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." - Josh Billings

The worst of failures

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry

Better than

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

Love is

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you." - Wayne Dyer

The abyss gazes

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

An invincible summer

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon." - David Assael

The best fruit

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." - Moliere

Always seek

"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity." - Og Mandino

Never despair

"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair." - Edmund Burke

Live together

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character

"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character." - Grenville Kleiser

Honey

"Every bee's honey is sweet." - George Herbert

Your vision

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung

Hatred

"Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly." - George Eliot

The desert beautiful

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We believe

"First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Liberty

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

Present moment

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha

Depend not

"Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance." - The laws of Manu

Almost everything

"Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." - Steve Jobs

Courage

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain

Always laugh...

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." - Lord Byron

Take over the world

"It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day." - Darby Conley

Actually happened

"I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." - Mark Twain

Good judgment

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." - Barry LePatner

Quality of the day

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." - Henry David Thoreau

Cannot teach

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves." - Galileo Galilei

Amour!

"Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!" - Aphra Behn

Brotherhood

"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman

Better to be hated

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide

Inner peace

"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace." - Robert J. Sawyer

Forget yourself

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." - Henry Miller

One's self

"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around." - Henry David Thoreau

If we...

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves." - Maria Edgeworth

Life is not measured...

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - Anonymous

freedom of speech

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

Quantity vs. Quality

"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality." - George Santayana

Knowledge

"Knowledge is power." - Francis Bacon