Margaret Cho: “Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.”
Mark Twain: “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
Joanna Field: “I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.”
Henry Van Dyke: “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
Kate Clinton: “A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don’t think that is the decision. It’s not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck: “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
Rebecca West: “It’s the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: “One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”
Benjamin Disraeli: “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”
Martina Horner: “What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.”
Walter Anderson: “Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”
Christopher Reeve: “Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”
Steve Jobs: “Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”
Indira Gandhi: “We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
Miles Davis: “My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
Mark Twain: “Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Sydney Smith: “There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle – to do nothing at all.”
Bertha Calloway: “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Dr. David M. Burns: “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.”
Oscar Wilde: “I can resist anything but temptation.”
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