"Freedom is not in doing what you want to do, but in becoming what you want to be."
— Ardis whitman

"Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life"
— Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

"Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it."
— Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
— William Butler Yeats

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
— William Butler Yeats

"Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning."
— Robert Frost

"Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within."
— Robert Frost

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
— William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

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

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
— Charles W. Eliot

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
— Horace Mann

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

"try and expect nothing,
but be OPEN for anything.
Don't look far for happiness,
but never settle for anything less.
"
— C. S

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get"
— W.P. Kinsella

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
— Guillaume Apollinaire

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
— Logan Pearsall Smith

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
— Michael Levine

"The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid."
— Confucius

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
— Maya Angelou

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"
— Charlotte Brontë (The Letters of Charlotte Bronte)

""Who we are is but a stepping stone to what we can become.""
— Uknown (Deus Ex 3)

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

"An idea is salvation by imagination"
— Frank Lloyd Wright

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it is then discovered."
— Italo Calvino (1923 - 1985)