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

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

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

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

"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

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"
— John Greenleaf Whittier (Maud Muller - Pamphlet)

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

"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

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

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston S. Churchill

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

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

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man
What is in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,
So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title,
Romeo, Doth thy name!
And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself....
- (Act II, Scene II)"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo And Juliet)

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

"In vain have I struggled but it will not do, my feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you, how much I love and admire you."
— Jane Austen

"I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it."
— Jane Austen (Emma)

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

"All the privilege I claim..is that of loving longest,when existence or when hope is gone."
— Jane Austen

"No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her."
— Jane Austen

"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
— Jane Austen (Mansfield Park)

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. "
— Jane Austen

"'My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,” said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.'"
— Jane Austen

"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
— Jane Austen

"She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

""It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.""
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."
— Jane Austen

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth."
— Matthew Henry

"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him."
— Matthew Henry

"When your will is God's will, you will have your will."
— Charles Spurgeon

""The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)"
— Charles Spurgeon

"If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him. "
— Charles Spurgeon

"But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences."
— Charles Spurgeon

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness"
— Charles Spurgeon

"Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches."
— Charles Spurgeon

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."
— Charles Spurgeon

"Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened."
— Charles Spurgeon