Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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.
Andrew Marvell
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
George Bernard Shaw
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Kathleen Norris
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Voltaire
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Nicolas Chamfort
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
Hypatia
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Dante Alighieri
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
D. H. Lawrence
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.
Jane Austen
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.