“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which everyone has many.” — Charles Dickens
“There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment” — Cardinal de Retz
“We may be afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.[ed]” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“I wouldn’t touch the metric measuring system with a 3.048m pole.” — Anonymous
“Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.” — Oscar Levant
“A lot of people try to change their behavior, but if you don’t change your beliefs, then whatever it is that motivated your behavior will find another way to come out sideways.” — Neil Strauss
“He who does not hope to win has already lost.” — Jose Joaquin Olmedo
“Finally, a guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking.” — Jon Stewart
“Freedom begins between the ears.” — Edward Abbey
“We all get the same amount of ice. The problem is some of us get it during the summer while others receive it in the winter.[ed]” — William ‘Bat’ Masterson
“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.” — Doug Larson
“Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon!” — Dorothy Parker
“You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.” — Terence
“If you can’t get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” — George Bernard Shaw
“I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas.” — Unknown
“I will follow my gut. It might not always be right but it’s my true north.” — Amy Selwyn
“The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.” — Frederick William Faber
“Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Gardening: Man’s effort to improve his lot.” — Anonymous
“Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.” — Arianna Huffington
“Even a small star shines in the darkness.” — Danish Proverb
“He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.” — John Green
“You’ve always had the power … you just had to learn it for yourself.” — Glinda the Good Witch of the North from The Wizard of Oz
“Find what you love and let it kill you.” — Charles Bukowski
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” ― Virginia Woolf
“When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.” — Cuban Proverb
“You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We’re just so damn good at reading them wrong.” — Rachel Cohn
“Even asleep we partake in the becoming of the world.” — Czeslaw Milosz
“When you continue to live in the past, your future is just a memory.” — Maria W.
“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.” — C.D. Jackson
