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
Category: Inspirations – Life
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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”
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
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)
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