"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

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

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. "
— Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972)

""A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."
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— William Shedd

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"He that can have patience can have what he will."
— Benjamin Franklin

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

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake."
— Confucius

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale."
— Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
— Lyndon B. Johnson

"Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit."
— Max Ehrmann (Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life)

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"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)

"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."
— Confucius

"As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms."
— Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)

"Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead."
— Paula White

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. "
— Frances Willard

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

"... in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)

"All thinking men are atheists."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Don't wake up one day wishing you'd tried."
— Edwin McCain