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  • Dr. Seuss
    "I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
    — Dr. Seuss


  • "Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. "
    — Denis Waitley


  • Elizabeth Gilbert
    "There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts."
    — Elizabeth Gilbert


  • Jeanette Winterson
    "There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name."
    — Jeanette Winterson (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit)


  • Carl Sandburg
    "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
    — Carl Sandburg


  • "Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be."
    — Andy Andrews


  • Zadie Smith
    "Time is how you spend your love."
    — Zadie Smith (On Beauty)


  • "It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God."
    — William Ralph Inge


  • "You can spend your money and spend your time. At the end of the day, you can look in your wallet and know how much money you have left. That's the difference between money and time."
    — Richard Miller


  • D.L. Moody
    "The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it"
    — D.L. Moody


  • "We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord). "
    — Edward Welch


  • Anne Lamott
    "Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare..."
    — Anne Lamott (Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)


  • Graham Greene
    "What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins--impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity--cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all. Then, in his innocence, he had felt no love for anyone; now in his corruption he had learnt."
    — Graham Greene (The Power and the Glory)


  • Paulo Coelho
    "In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today."
    — Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation)


  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson


  • Dr. Seuss
    "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
    — Dr. Seuss


  • Bill Watterson
    "Reality continues to ruin my life."
    — Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)


  • Maya Angelou
    "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
    — Maya Angelou


  • Dr. Seuss
    "So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains."
    — Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)


  • Mark Twain
    "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
    — Mark Twain


  • Jane Austen
    "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
    — Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)


  • C.S. Lewis
    "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
    — C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)


  • Arundhati Roy
    "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."
    — Arundhati Roy


  • Rainer Maria Rilke
    "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
    — Rainer Maria Rilke


  • Anaïs Nin
    "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
    — Anaïs Nin


  • Winston S. Churchill
    "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
    — Winston S. Churchill


  • Siddhārtha Gautama
    "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
    — Siddhārtha Gautama


  • Helen Keller
    "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
    — Helen Keller


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


  • Oscar Wilde
    "Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
    — Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)


  • Marilyn Monroe
    "A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
    — Marilyn Monroe


  • Jane Austen
    "The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
    — Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)


  • Plato
    "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
    — Plato


  • Edmund Burke
    "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
    — Edmund Burke


  • Robert Frost
    "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."
    — Robert Frost


  • Aristotle
    "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
    — Aristotle


  • William Shakespeare
    "A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
    — William Shakespeare


  • Sarah Dessen
    "No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."
    — Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)


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


  • George Burns
    "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
    — George Burns


  • Jonathan Safran Foer
    "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
    — Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)


  • C.S. Lewis
    "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
    — C.S. Lewis


  • Ayn Rand
    "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
    — Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)


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


  • Mark Twain
    "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
    — Mark Twain


  • Edgar Allan Poe
    "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
    — Edgar Allan Poe


  • Oscar Wilde
    "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
    — Oscar Wilde


  • Francis Of Assisi
    "All the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light from a single candle."
    — Francis Of Assisi (The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi)


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


  • Tom Robbins
    "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
    — Tom Robbins



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