Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh
and the greatness which does not bow before children.
--Kahlil Gibran
 

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed
only if there is a light from within.
--Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children:
One is roots. The other is wings.
--Hodding Carter, Jr.

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
--Braveheart (from the movie)
 

Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour,
on their own terms and not yours,
to be seized or relinquished forever.
--Gail Godwin

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
--Mahatma Gandhi

What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

People do not seem to realize
that their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

To educate a man in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
--Theodore Roosevelt

Mankind must put an end to war,
or war will put an end to mankind.
--John F. Kennedy, Jr.
 

You see but your shadow when
you turn your back to the sun.
--Kahlil Gibran

He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
--Chinese Proverb

Life can only be understood backwards,
but it must be lived forwards.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
--Nelson Mandela

No one can dub you with dignity.
That's yours to claim.
--Odetta

To live is so startling
it leaves little time for anything else.
--Emily Dickinson
 

Life begets life. Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
--Sarah Bernhardt

Don't compromise yourself.
You are all you've got.
--Janis Joplin

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood .
--Thomas Carlyle
 

Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
--Helen Keller
 

We must use time creatively, and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
--Nelson Mandela

It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
--Ursula K. Le Guin

The art of life is to know
how to enjoy a little
and to endure much.
--William Hazlitt
 

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.
One that sounds good, and a real one.
--J. Pierpoint Morgan
 

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
--Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

The whole problem with the world is
that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
--Bertrand Russell

The unexamined life is not worth living.
--Socrates

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all,
and not to the few or the rich alone.
--Thomas Jefferson
 

Wisdom too often never comes,
and so one ought not to reject it
merely because it comes late.
--Felix Frankfurter
 

Living and dying is not the big issue.
The big issue is what you're going to do with your time
while you are here.
--Bill T. Jones

The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
--Ursula K. Le Guin

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly,
despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow,
but through it all I still know quite certainly that just
to be alive is a grand thing.
--Agatha Christie
 

And the wind said:
"May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch;
may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow;
and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth."
--Native American Prayer