"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
— Mark Twain

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. "
— William Faulkner

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."
— Mark Twain

"Freedom lies in being bold."
— Robert Frost

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener. "
— Robert Frost

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"If we were supposed to talk more than listen we would have been given two mouths and one ear."
— Mark Twain

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane"
— Robert Frost

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one."
— Mark Twain

"But Above all things truth beareth away the victory "
— Plato

"It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true."
— Mark Twain

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. "
— Plato

"Action speaks louder then words but not nearly as often"
— Mark Twain

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation"
— Plato

"There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier--but do not dare say so. And now the whole nation--pulpit and all--will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
— Mark Twain (The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories)

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
— Plato

"April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four."
— Mark Twain (Puddnhead Wilson and Other Tales : Those Extraordinary Twins, the Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg)

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"May the sun
bring you new energy by day
May the moon
softly restore you by night
May the rain
wash away your worries
May the breeze
blow new strength into your being
May you walk
gently through the world and know
its beauty all the days of your life."
— Apache Blessing

"The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less."
— Zeno

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."
— Henry David Thoreau

"If the one who is to act wants to judge himself by the result, he will never begin."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds"
— Henry David Thoreau

"The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."
— Thich Nhat Hanh (The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching)

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."
— Oprah Winfrey

"The thinking that has gotten us to where we are will be insufficient to solve the problems created in getting us here."
— Albert Einstein

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
— Walt Disney Company

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
— Aristotle

"When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed."
— Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass)

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
— Winston S. Churchill

"I am my world."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

"In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

"Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you
imagine. Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you Sing Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with
people who are reckless with yours. Floss Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes
you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with
yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. Stretch Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe
you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your
choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever
own.. Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for
good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young."
— Baz Luhrmann

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
— Martin Luther King Jr.