Be resolved and the thing is done.

~ Chinese Proverb

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn’t easy.

~ Luigi Pirandello

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

~ Meister Eckhart

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

~ John Lennon

Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.

~ W.B. Yeats

Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

~ Anthony Eden

God has made the back to the burden.

~ William Cobbett

He made me play a song for him once with one finger. I was playing it with a lot of flash, and he said, “Wait a minute. I just want to hear the song.” I’d taper it out and cool it more and more, but finally he grabbed one finger and said, “Play me the song with this finger!” Now, that’s hard to do. You can play Moon River with one finger, no problem. But try and play some funk tune, with no melody and no real content, with one finger. You can’t do it.

~ David Foster, relating a conversation with Quincy Jones

You should never doubt what no one is sure about.

~ Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, “Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory,” screenplay by Ronald Dahl

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. 

So it goes. 

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

~ Virginia Satir

If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

~ Carla Gordon

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

~ Pablo Casals (1876-1973)

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There’s a vanity to candor that isn’t really worth it. Be kind.

~ Richard Greenberg

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. 

~ Wendell Berry

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

~ Carl Jung