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  • #1
    Pearl S. Buck
    “I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #2
    Douglas Adams
    “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #3
    John Muir
    “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
    John Muir

  • #4
    John Muir
    “The sun shines not on us but in us.”
    John Muir

  • #5
    Pablo Picasso
    “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

  • #6
    Abraham H. Maslow
    “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
    Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #8
    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

  • #10
    Audrey Hepburn
    “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #11
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

  • #13
    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

  • #16
    Lauren Oliver
    “I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.”
    Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

  • #17
    Richard Brautigan
    “Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”
    Richard Brautigan

  • #18
    Rollo May
    “Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.”
    Rollo May, The Courage to Create

  • #19
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

  • #20
    Horatius
    “Tu ne quaesieris--scire nefas--quem mihi, quem tibi finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios temptaris numeros. Ut melius, quidquid erit, pati. . . . Spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.”
    Horace

  • #21
    Horatius
    “Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and
    whatever days fortune will give, count them
    as profit.”
    Horace, The Odes of Horace

  • #22
    T. Scott McLeod
    “Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?”
    T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

  • #23
    Martin Buber
    “Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?”
    Martin Buber

  • #24
    Bram Stoker
    “We learn from failure, not from success!”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #25
    Henry Ford
    “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
    Henry Ford

  • #26
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “By seeking and blundering we learn.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #27
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #28
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    Rumi
    tags: joy

  • #30
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
    C. JoyBell C.



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