100+ Short Inspirational Quotes for Encouragement to Brighten Your Day

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

"I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

"I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Paulo Coelho

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one!"

- Dolly Parton

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Ariana Huffington

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"

- Bruce Lee

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

"You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

- Geena Davis

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

- Bruce Springsteen

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."

- Taylor Swift

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

- Michelle Obama

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."

- Lady Gaga

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."

- Gabrielle Union

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."

- Oprah Winfrey

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

- W. P. Kinsella

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."

- Tony Robbins

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."

- Amanda Gorman

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"You become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"What we think, we become."

- Buddha

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steve Furtick

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I think, therefore I am."

- René Descartes

"All men are created equal."

- _Declaration of Independence_

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"No road is long with good company."

- Turkish proverb

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

- William Shakespeare

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffet

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."

- Simone Biles

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

- Aristotle

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

- Saint Augustine

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

- William Shakespeare

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

- Plato

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"To love is to burn, to be on fire."

- Jane Austen

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

- Confucius

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

- Victor Hugo

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

- Oscar Wilde

"I can resist everything except temptation."

- Oscar Wilde

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."

- Oscar Wilde

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back."

- Oscar Wilde

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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

"Love is a canvas furnished by nature."

"Love is the poetry of the senses."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."