"Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after." (Henry David Thoreau)
"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists." (Japanese saying)
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." (George Bernard Shaw)
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." (Khalil Gibran)
"He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future." (Quevedo)
"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us." (Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich, "Religio Medici")
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." (Napoleon Hill)
"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we have a clear picture of it." (Benedict Spinoza)
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." (Benjamin Franklin)
"Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us." (Eugène Ionesco)
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