“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Harriet Tubman
“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
J. K. Rowling
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
J. K. Rowling
“Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it. And you have to open your heart to what the world can show you. And sometimes it's terrifying. And sometimes it's incredibly beautiful. And I'll take both, thanks.”
Wisdom (2008). Film.
Graham Nash
“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”
Elbert Hubbard
“I always entertain great hopes.”
Robert Frost
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
Robert Frost
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
Maya Angelou
“All great achievements require time.”
Maya Angelou
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
Maya Angelou
“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”
Maya Angelou
“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.”
Les Brown
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Samuel Johnson
“Ghost stars shine their light upon us, long after they're gone.”
Cosmos, S1E4
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.”
Helen Keller
“Live the life you've dreamed.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.”
Amelia Earhart
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
Leo Tolstoy