''It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.''
CLAUDE BERNARD

''Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.''
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

''The world owes you nothing because the universe has already given you everything.''
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

''Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.''
HENRY FORD

''The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.''
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

''Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.''
DOUGLAS ADAMS

''All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.''
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

''Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.''
ARTHUR ASHE

''We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.''
CHARLES KINGSLEY

''He enjoys true leisure and has time to improve his soul's estate.''
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

''Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.''
MAYA ANGELOU

''The only way to have a friend is to be one.''
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

''There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.''
ROBIN WILLIAMS

''When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.''
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

''Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.''
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

''When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.''
THOMAS EDISON

''The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.''
B. F. SKINNER

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”
J.M. POWER

''There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.''
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people."
VIRGINIA WOOLF

''I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone''
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"There's more beauty in the truth, even if it is dreadful beauty."
JOHN STEINBECK

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."
JOHN MUIR

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people."
VIRGINIA WOOLF

“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
ELBERT HUBBARD

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
ANDY DUFRESNE

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

"All great and precious things are lonely,"
SAMUEL HAMILTON

"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
PLUTARCH

"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head."
ANDY ROONEY

"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."
EPICTETUS

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
MARCUS AURELIUS

"The pen is mightier than the sword"
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.”
GLENN CLARK

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
CHARLES DICKENS

"Some people can't believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first."
SEAN MAGUIRE

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

"We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil,"
JOHN STEINBECK

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
PAULO COELHO

"Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure."
DHAMMAPADA

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied – chains us all irrevocably."
CAPTAIN JEAN-LUC PICARD

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
RUDYARD KIPLING

“It's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.”
L.M. MONTGOMERY

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart"
EMMA

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."
AUDREY HEPBURN

“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
MOTHER TERESA

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins."
MITCH ALBOM

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."
CORETTA SCOTT KING

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

“When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived!”
ANNE FRANK

“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men.”
MINOT J. SAVAGE

“People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.”
ANNE TYLER

“You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
COACH JOHN WOODEN

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
BACH

"Most people never get to see how brilliant they can be. They don't find teachers who believe in them."
SEAN MAGUIRE

"You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing."
KATE MORTON

"One man can make a difference and every man should try."
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS

"The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed."
SEBASTIAN R. N. CHAMFORT

"We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking."
GENERAL DWIGHT D EISENHOWER

“People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

WORDS OF WISDOM
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
GAUTAMA BUDDHA

"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."
CHARLES KETTERING

"One of the greatest discoveries a person makes is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.”
HENRY FORD

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

"I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
CHARLES DICKENS

“Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody."
AGATHA CHRISTIE

“She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.”
ANNE TYLER

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."
JACQUES MARITAIN

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.”
ALEXANDRA K.TRENFOR

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
WINSTON CHURCHILL

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
GAUTAMA BUDDHA

“People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

“The path to wisdom is paved with humility.”
TIM FARGO

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work."
GREG BEHRENDT

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
JANE AUSTEN