Wil Wheaton: “Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it’s surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.”
Ugo Betti: “When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that’s necessary for believing in it.”
Aristotle: “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Felicia Day: “That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It’s a person who dares to love something that isn’t conventional.”
Cynthia Ozick: “To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Patricia Neal: “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”
Eddie Cantor: “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
Lois McMaster Bujold: “If you can’t do what you want, do what you can.”
Duke Ellington: “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Steve Jobs: “I don’t think it’s good that we’re perceived as different I think it’s important we’re perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that’d be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don’t care about being different, but we’ll have to be different in some ways to be much better.”
Susan Rice: “Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.”
Yoda: “Do or do not. There is no try.”
Samahria Lyte Kaufman: “Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.”
Ann Radcliffe: “Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.”
Phil Knight: “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.”
Dorothy Day: “I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”
Milan Kundera: “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
John Milton: “He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
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