“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”

- Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

"Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles."

-John Tyndall

"Be bold! That's one way Of getting through life."

- Archilochus

“It matters not what a person is born, but who they choose to be.”

- J. K. Rowling

“Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

- Henry Ford

“Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.”

- Norman Lear

"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you."

- Sri Chinmoy

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

- Stephen Covey

‎"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."

- T. E. Lawrence

“To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”

- Tom Robbins

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."

- Robin Williams

"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."

- Carlos Santana

“We should seek the greatest value of our actions.”

- Stephen Hawking

"I'm running Badwater."

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

- Albert Einstein

"I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work."

- Woody Guthrie

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

- William Osler

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

- Edmund Burke

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."

- Henry David Thoreau

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

- Marcel Proust

"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."

- Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan

A League of Their Own (1992)

"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish”

- Jean de La Fontaine

"The destiny of man is in his own soul."

- Herodotus

"One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet."

- Jean Cocteau