We are all in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars. 

~ Oscar Wilde

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

~ Oscar Wilde

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

~ Latin Proverb

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

~ Carl Jung

Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: It is always urgent, here and now without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. It is rewarding to find someone who you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things. For you cannot live in someone else. You cannot find yourself in someone else. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave nor lose. To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution. 

~ Jo Coudert

One person can make a difference, and every person should try. 

~ JFK

When you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. 

~ Henry Miller

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. 

~ Friedrich Engels

Our own success, to be real, must contribute to the success of others. 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t listen to what they say. Go see. 

~ Chinese Proverb

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. 

~ C.S. Lewis

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day. 

~ Proverb

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. 

~ Aldous Huxley

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

~ Albert Einstein

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt (those who cross the sea change the sky, not their spirits). 

~ Horace

Audentes fortuna iuvat (fortune favors the bold). 

~ Virgil

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together. 

~ Vincent Van Gogh

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

~ Thomas Edison

If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

~ C.S. Lewis