Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

Robert H. Schuller

The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.

Terry Pratchett

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

C.S. Lewis

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet;He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of howWe are working to completion, working on from then to now.Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete,Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet,And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,And the obliquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.But, my pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn,You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn,What for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles;What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles.You may tell that German College that their honor comes too late,But they must not waste repentance on the grizzly savant's fate.Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Sarah Williams, The Old Astronom

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

Johnson

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

John Cale

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Ruth St. Denis

There is beauty in all we know and beauty in all we don't know. Our journey is to love it all.

Thomas Warfield

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

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