"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
— Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel)

"The weaker you are the louder you bark.
-Tenten"
— Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto)

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

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

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

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

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured"
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. "
— Oprah Winfrey

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

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

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The earth laughs in flowers."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
— Martin Luther

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

"When you know better you do better."
— Oprah Winfrey

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)