A collection of quotes that have inspired, moved, and stayed with me.

  • Quote – Aristotle

    To perceive is to suffer. – Aristotle

  • Quote – Oprah Winfrey

    Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.  – Oprah Winfrey

  • Quote – Oscar Wilde

    Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere’s Fan

  • Quote – Sydney Bremer

    Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, for those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles. – Sydney Bremer

  • Quote – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Quote – Oscar Wilde

    The essence of romance is uncertainty. – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • Quote – Friedrich Nietzsche

    He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Quote – Frank Outlaw

    Watch your thoughts, they become words; Watch your words, they become actions; Watch your actions, they become habits; Watch your habits, they become character; Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. – Frank Outlaw, 18 May 1977

  • Quote – Anaïs Nin

    Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol. 1: 1931-1934)

  • “Sonnet 15”

    When I consider everything that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment; That this huge stage presenteth naught but shows Whereon the stars in secret influence comment. – William Shakespeare, an excerpt from “Sonnet 15”

  • “Auguries of Innocence”

    To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. – William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”, The Pickering Manuscript

  • Quote – Edna St. Vincent Millay

    I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late. – Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poem from Huntsman, What Quarry? (1939)

  • Quote – Leo Buscaglia

    To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. – Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)

  • “Idylls of the King”

    …but, friend, to me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth. – Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King, “Elaine”  

  • “In Memoriam”

    I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson, “In Memoriam”, Part XXVII

  • “Sonnet 116”

    Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although…

  • Quote – Martin Luther King Junior

    In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Junior (1968 speech, where he reflects on the Civil Rights Movement)

  • Quote

    A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. – Arabian Proverb

  • Quote – Shakespeare

    My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; The more I give to you, the more I have, For both are infinite. – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • Quote – Salman Rushdie

    Love does not conquer all, except in Bombay Talkies; rip tear crunch will not be defeated by a mere ceremony; and optimism is a disease. – Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children