The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
– Confucius
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow a world.
– Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
– James Joyce
The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
– Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
– Milan Kundera
Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.
– Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
– Helen Keller
Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
– Albert Camus
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
– Anais Nin
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
– Mark Twain
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
– Robert Frost
The best way forward is always through.
– Robert Frost
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
– Henry David Thoreau
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
– Buddha
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
– Aristotle
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
– Lord Byron
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
– Aristotle
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
– Lord Byron
