Albert Camus
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Leonardo da Vinci
Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.
André Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
John F. Kennedy
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Henry David Thoreau
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Samuel Johnson
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Audrey Hepburn
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Thomas Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure.
Leo Tolstoy
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Xenocrates
I have often repented of speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it’s the courage to continue that counts.