Quotes to Live By...
I love quotes. They simplify all those thoughts swirling around in our heads and put into words our goals, our dreams, our imagination. They bring clarity to the present and push me to keep striving for more. They motivate me, and I hope these motivate you too.
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil's foot;
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind......
- John Donne (1572 - d.1631)
"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it."
- Rosalia de Castro
"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. " -Angela Monet
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." - Oscar Wilde
"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Not all who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." -Voltaire
"Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted." -Anon
"The brick walls are there to make you show how much you want it." -Randy Pausch
"I believe in the sun when it's not shining, in love even when I feel it not, that imagination is stronger than knowledge, myth is more potent than history, dreams are more powerful than facts, hope always triumphs, and laughter is the cure for grief." -Robert Fulgahm
"If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.” -Tom Krause
"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about." –Wayne Dyer
“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.” - Frank A. Clark