No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

David Icke

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent...Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith, The Way To Succeed

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Marcus Aurelius

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

Bill Bryson

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

Brooke Burns

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

Tracy Chapman

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Frederic Bastiat

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Thomas Traherne