Unknown: "An arrow can only..."

"An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties. It means that its going to launch you into something great. So just focus and keep aiming."

—Unknown

Epicurus: "Do not spoil what..."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

—Epicurus

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: "We must accept finite..."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jason Jordan: "True love does not..."

"True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

—Jason Jordan

Zig Ziglar: "You don't have to be great..."

"You don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great."

–Zig Ziglar

Andy Goldsworthy: "The difference between..."

"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."

–Andy Goldsworthy

Helen Hayes: "I am confused..."

"I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre."

–Helen Hayes

Alexander Pope: "Act well your part..."

"Act well your part; there all the honour lies."

–Alexander Pope, Pope: An Essay on Man

Constantin Stanislavski: "Love art in yourself..."

"Love art in yourself, not yourself in art."

–Constantin Stanislavski, My Life in Art
 

William Blake: "The greater the sorrow..."

"The deeper the sorrow, the greater the joy"

—William Blake

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Hatred paralyzes life; love..."

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Oscar Wilde: "Every saint has a..."

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

—Oscar Wilde

Unknown: "I am thankful for..."

"I am thankful for the difficult people in my life. They have shown me exactly who I don't want to be."

—Unknown

Albert Einstein: "Everybody is a genius..."

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole like believing that it is stupid."

—Albert Einstein

Thomas Merton: "The beginning of love..."

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,
and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only
the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

–Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island

Wes Moore: "None of us..."

"None of us are ever promised anything. Make sure it matters that you are here."

-Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore

Wes Moore: "The world is..."

"The world is much bigger than what is right in front of you."

-Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore

L. Frank Baum: "You've always had..."

"You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself."

—Glinda, The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Graham Hancock: "Fear is the lock..."

"Think for your yourself. Take nothing for granted. Question everything. Reach your own conclusions based on your own experience, intuition and common sense. These are amongst the gifts the bountiful universe bestowed when we were given the opportunity to be born in a human body. We should use those gifts well, and make the most of this precious opportunity, for that is what we are here to do.

Fear is the lock, consciousness is the key, and love is on the other side of the door."

—Graham Hancock

Unknown: "People hate you for..."

"People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons.

1. They hate themselves
2. They want to be you
3. They see you as a threat"

—Unknown

Wayne W. Dyer: "My goal is not..."

"My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be."

—Wayne W. Dyer

Albert Einstein: "The world will not..."

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."

—Albert Einstein

Unknown: "If you are not..."

"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you."

—Unknown

David Icke: "The greatest prison people..."

"The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think."

—David Icke

Ronald Reagan: "We can't help everyone..."

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

—Ronald Reagan

C.S. Lewis: "There are far, far..."

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we left behind."

—C.S. Lewis

Gerry Spence: "I would rather have..."

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder, than one closed by belief."

—Gerry Spence

Gandhi: "The future depends on..."

"The future depends on what we do in the present."

—Mahatma Gandhi

Paulo Coelho: "Life has many ways..."

"Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by everything happen all at once."

—Paulo Coelho

Rumi: "Raise your words, not..."

"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

—Rumi