“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

- J. K. Rowling as Albus Dumbledore

"If you don't get what you want it is a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price."

- Rudyard Kipling

“Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.”

- Albert Pike

“If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?”

- Charles de Lint

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

- Benjamin Disraeli

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

- Philip K. Dick

“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”

- Thomas Carlyle

“Running is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."

- Nadine Gordimer

"Don’t count me out… I have been built and strengthened by life’s battles. When you think I’m tired; I’m just getting started. When you think I’m dead; that’s when I’m most alive."

- Steve Maraboli

"Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them."

- Karen Marie Moning

“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.”

-  Annette Funicello

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while running.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."

- Shana Alexander

“This bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.”

- Shel Silverstein

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

- Yogi Berra

"Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long."

- Cesare Pavese

“In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.”

- Sid Caesar

“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”

- Lily Tomlin

“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

- William Saroyan

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” -Paulo Coelho

- Paulo Coelho

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

- Rosalynn Carter

"One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas -- and you have to work through it all." -V. S. Naipaul

- V. S. Naipaul

“What we play is life.”

- Louis Armstrong

“There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!”

- Maggie Kuhn