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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
---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
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson
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.
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
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.
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
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T.S. Eliot
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” —Havelock Ellis
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
---William Shakespeare, Illustrated
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
T.S. Eliot
“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” —Will Smith
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
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” —Aldous Huxley
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
—T.S. Eliot
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” —Oprah
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
Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” —Steve Jobs
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
Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn'd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.
---William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
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
The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
----William Butler Yeats
Battle not with monsters, lest you become one and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
---William Butler Yeats
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” —Viktor E. Frankl
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