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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus (1913-1960)

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give .
Winston Churchill

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15)

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
Variant: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give of one's self; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it
Albert Einstein

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
Heraclitus - Fragments

If there is anything more poignant than a body dying for lack of food it is a mind dying for lack of light.
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables (1862) (IV.7.iv)

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do h im absoutely no good .
Samuel Johnson

In a mad world only the mad are sane.
Akira Kurosawa

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

If I love a person, I would love that which most makes him a person: the secrecy, the hiddenness, the solitude of his individual being, which God alone can penetrate and understand.
Thomas Merton

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller

The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
Ovid - Metamorphoses (IV, 287)

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

My object is to show what I have found, not what I am looking for.
Pablo Picasso

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom of mind, so also the individual’s freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.
John Paul Stevens

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Debt is the slavery of the free.
Pubilius Syrus

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

Sex is the Tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.
Mary Day Winn