Nicolas Chamfort
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Franz Kafka
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Charlie Chaplin
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.
Pablo Picasso
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Henry David Thoreau
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Andrew Marvell
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
D. H. Lawrence
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
Emily Dickinson
Forever is composed of nows.
Dante Alighieri
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Xenocrates
I have often repented of speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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.