#inspirational

"Dare to learn. Dare to think. Dare to be irrational."

"a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long."

"Fake it 'till you make it."

"If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes."

"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy."

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives."

"Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one."

"Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people."

"I am the captain of my soul."

"Improve your relationship with you."

"The level of consciousness defines the level of understanding and awareness."

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try"to do things. You simply "must"do things."

"All I wanted to do, ever, was be myself."

"At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you."

"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"

"Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago"[Without learning, life is but the image of death]"

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

"If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable."