Michael J. Fox: “There’s a rule in acting called, “Don’t play the result.” If you have a character who’s going to end up in a certain place, don’t play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that’s what you do in life: You don’t play the result.”
Ali Vincent: “The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.”
Pete Seeger: “Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.”
Margaret Cho: “Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.”
Julia Louise Woodruff: “Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done.”
William Van Horne: “Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.”
Charles Du Bos: “The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
Chinese Proverb: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
William Raspberry: “Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction – the things that constitute real success – is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.”
Aristotle: “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
A. Lawrence Lowell: “Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.”
Elizabeth David: “Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.”
Jean Anouilh: “Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.”
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.: “Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.”
Elizabeth Bowen: “If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.”
Oprah Winfrey: “The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: “Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.”
John Green: “Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
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