“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” — Dolly Parton

“If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.” — Agatha Christie

“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” — The Imitation Game

“You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you are not doing.” — David Allen

Bonus quote: “Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” — Ambrose Bierce

“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too” ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“There is no safety. Only varying degrees of risk.” – Lois McMaster Bujold

“If you want loyalty get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention get a smart dog.” ― Grand Fairley

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.” – Winnie the Pooh

“We must always talk in the market place of what happens to us in the forest.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No matter how love sick you are, don’t take the first pill that comes along.[ed]” – Dr. Joyce Brothers

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” – Lily Tomlin

“Bloom Where You’re Planted.” ― Mary Engelbreit

“There are all types of love in the world, but never the same love twice.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” ― James M. Barrie

“True love is when you discover your name is their password.” ― Unknown

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers But above all the world needs dreamers who do.” — Sarah Breathnach

“What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pike

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.” ― Salvador Dali

“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” ― James Goldsmith

“Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Steve Jobs

“Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.” — William Penn

“The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.” – Cheryl Strayed

“No man is a hero to his valet.” – Cornuel’s Observation

“Winter came down to our home one night, quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow, and we, we were children once again.” – Bill Morgan Jr.

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.” – Dan Gilbert The psychology of Your Future Self

“Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to stay on the path to nowhere just because you know the way.” – Robert Brault

“Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.” – Iris Murdoch

“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.” ― Napoleon Hill

“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” ― Danny Kaye, American actor and singer

“They want to see you do good, but never better than them. Remember that.” ― Unknown

“Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.” ― William Lyon Phelps