Collective Quote-arrific

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Mark Twain

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."
~James Matthew Barrie

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
~ Homer

"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was humanly possible"
~ George Santayana

"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."
~ Frank Deford

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
~ Thomas Carlyle

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
~ Voltaire

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
~ Helen Keller

"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."
~ Susan Sontag

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting..."
~ Paulo Coelho

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
~ Gandhi

"PEACE. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."
~ Anonymous

"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
~Dorothea Lange

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
~Henry David Thoreau

"Since the only true geography is consciousness, it is not where we are but what we have become which makes the difference."
~PHM Atwater

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
~ e. e. cummings

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh!' he whispered. 'Yes, Piglet?' 'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
~ A. A. Milne

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
~ John Irving

"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not."
~ Author Unknown

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
~ Anne Frank

"There are times when it is hard to believe in the future, when we are temporarily just not brave enough. When this happens, concentrate on the present. Cultivate le petit bonheur (the little happiness) until courage returns. Look forward to the beauty of the next moment, the next hour, the promise of a good meal, sleep, a book, a movie, the likelihood that tonight the stars will shine and tomorrow the sun will shine. Sink roots into the present until the strength grows to think about tomorrow."
~ Ardis Whitman

"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
~ Ansel Adams

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."
~ George Moore

"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything."
~ Laurence Sterne

"Can you imagine when you were in college if someone had told you you'd be celebrating your 28th birthday in Africa? At a minimum i think you'd be happy to know that you would end up following your dreams, even if you had an inkling that such a thing might be possible. Take a minute to look around at where you are, the future can wait..."
~ BMP

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer."
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream."
~Author Unknown

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?"
~Hillel, twelfth century

Updated by The Girl Next Door... on Monday, March 12, 2007