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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
---William Shakespeare, Illustrated
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
You have succeeded in life when all you want is only what you need.” —Vernon Howard
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Nelson Mandela
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
Make me immortal with a kiss.
---Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” —Bruce Lee
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
---Emily Dickinson
What though the sea with waves continuall
Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ;
Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought :
For whatsoever from one place doth fall
Is with the tyde unto another brought :
For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T.S. Eliot
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —E. M. Forster
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
T.S. Eliot
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” —Henry David Thoreau
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T.S. Eliot
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” —Socrates
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.
---William Shakespeare, Macbeth
You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.
---William Shakespeare, Hamlet
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.
---William Butler Yeats
The best revenge is massive success.” —Frank Sinatra
I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
---William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” —Rosa Parks
I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
---W.B. Yeats
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” —Albert Einstein
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
---William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” —Joan Rivers
In every cry of every man,
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear.
----William Blake, The Complete Poems
“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint—and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” —Oprah
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
---W.B. Yeats
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.” —Euripides
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
---Philip Larkin
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
And we are put on earth a little space,
that we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this sunburnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
----William Blake
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” —Helen Keller
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
—Anaïs Nin
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” —Albert Pine
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
---William Blake
You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.” —Steve Maraboli
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.
----Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass