“You can’t rush something you want to last forever.” — Unknown
“A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” — Stephen Covey
“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.” — E. M. Forster
“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.” — Hermann Hesse
“It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.” — Max Ehrmann
“Anything that you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.” — Eddie Murphy
“Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with them.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Knowing the name of a bird does not tell you anything about the essence of that bird.[ed]” — Richard Feynman
“When a friend does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right.” — Unknown
“There is a southern proverb–fine words butter no parsnips.” — Sir Walter Scott
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” — Anne Lamott
“It’s all too easy to fall hostage to the urgent over the important.” — Herminia Ibarra
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” — John Wooden
“There’s no thief like a bad movie.” — Sam Ewing
“Simply be the qualities you seek in others.” — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.” — William Inge
“Value the people who sacrifice something for you because maybe that something was their everything.” — Unknown
“I don’t have a bad handwriting , I have my own font.” — Bill Murray
“If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.” — Fred Menger
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” — Thomas Pynchon
“The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.” — Thomas Merton
“Some people have no idea of what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.” — George Carlin
“The most basic way to get someone’s attention is this: Break the pattern.” — Dan and Chip Heath
“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.” — Mao Tse-Tung
“Families are the training ground for forgiveness.” — Anne Lamott
“If love was easy, there would be almost no music.” — Jake Johannsen
“We have this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand… and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it while it offers its best.[ed]” — Marie Beyon Ray
“Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.” — Louis L’Amour
“I have learned [more] from my dogs than from all the great books I have read. The wisdom of my dog is the product of his inability to conceal his wants. There are no games. No professor told me that I might live a more successful life if I simply ask for love…when I needed it.” — Gerry Spence, trial lawyer
“If it’s sent by ship then it’s a cargo, if it’s sent by road then it’s a shipment.” — Dave Allen
“The start is what stops most people.” — Don Shula
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” — Rumi
“Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.” — H. H. Swami Tejomayananda
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.” — Kenneth H. Blanchard
“What is possible is not defined by what is probable.” — Mark Sanborn
“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.” — Doug Larson