“Be poet enough to call forth life’s daily riches and enjoy them.” — inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.” — Idries Shah
“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.” — Cormac McCarthy
“Eaten bread is soon forgotten.” — Thomas Fuller
“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” — Stephen King
“Let your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.[ed]” — Nelson Mandela
“When eating fruit, remember who planted the tree; when drinking water, remember who dug the well.” — Vietnamese Proverb
“I had to remove knowledge to make room for belief.” — Immanuel Kant
“Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.” — Democritus
“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.” — Dee Hock
“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club.” — John W. Campbell Jr.
“I’ve learned… that when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.” — Andy Rooney
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” — Haruki Murakami
“If you’re not enough before the gold medal, you won’t be enough with it.” — from the movie Cool Runnings
“Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t.” — Lord Raglan
“You don’t have to know exactly where you’re going to be headed somewhere great.” — Unknown
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” — Francis Bacon
“You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.” — Anne Lamott
“Normal people … believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.” — Scott Adams
“There’s no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour
“He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.” ― Don Juan Manuel
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“I hate brushing my teeth at night because that signifies that you can’t have any more food and I’m just never ready for that kind of commitment.” ― Unknown
“The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.” — Hugh Prather
“Life should be touched, not strangled.“ — Ray Bradbury
“The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother… they’ll settle for a puppy every time.” — Winston Pendelton
“It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.” — Steven Pressfield
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.” — Albert Einstein
“No man’s credit is as good as his money.” — Edgar Watson Howe
“My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate; I said ‘Just wait.’” — Judy Tenuta
“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