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Temptation to behave is terrible. - Bertolt Brecht

"Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there." — Will Smith

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. - Anton Chekhov

“It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” —John Guare

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
― Maya Angelou

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. - Albert Einstein

Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.

Iyanla Vanzant

"I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. - Jean de La Fontaine

“Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.”
― Vince Lombardi

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'
-Lao Tzu

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. - Novalis

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
-Kahlil Gibran

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

The most important things in life aren't things. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. – Anais Nin

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” — President John F. Kennedy

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it.”
― Greg Melville

Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.
Taylor Jenkins Reid

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. - Edmund Burke

"I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant." George Armstrong Custer

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." — Mae West

"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more." by Chief Joseph

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
Laurie Halse Anderson

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.by Bela Lugosi

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
-Viktor E. Frankl

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.
Jeff Bridges

The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. – D.H. Lawrence

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.--James Stewart

I'm a serious geek. I mean I seriously want to own a unicorn when I'm older . . . or a Pegasus . . . yeah Pegasus sounds better.

Henry Cavill

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

Yul Brynner

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. – Charles Darwin

“Failure is not the end. It’s an opportunity to learn, grow, and come back stronger than ever.” - Chris Cerulli

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

John Wayne

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” —Zora Neale Hurston

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. - George Jean Nathan

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. - Friedrich Nietzsche

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

"She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart."

Johnny Depp

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” —Douglas Adams

“Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!'

Darren Hayes
Savage Garden

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. - Meister Eckhart

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do. - Alexei Navalny

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
-Mark Twain

“Some walks you have to take alone.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. - Nicolaus Copernicus

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi

“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields