354 quotes
“The more important a call or action is to our souls evolution the more resistance we will feel toward pursuing it”
— Steven Pressfield
“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts think only on those things that are in line with your principles”
— Heraclitus
“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
— William Wordsworth
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take”
— Wayne Gretzky
“Do one thing every day that scares you”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way”
— Grace Hopper
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do”
— Bob Dylan
“Creativity takes courage”
— Henri Matisse
“The secret of being boring is to say everything”
— Voltaire
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you you are restoring your own soul”
— Alice Walker
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The battles that count are not the ones for gold medals the struggles within yourself are the ones that matter”
— Jesse Owens
“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”
— David Whyte
“They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself”
— Andy Warhol
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinking”
— Haruki Murakami
“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory”
— Fernando Pessoa
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me look what happens with a love like that it lights the whole sky”
— Hafiz
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely”
— Auguste Rodin
“Nobody cares if you can dance well just get up and dance great dancers are not great because of their technique”
— Martha Graham
“Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress working hard for something we love is called passion”
— Simon Sinek
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you do not need to escape from”
— Seth Godin
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace”
— Jimi Hendrix
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a gift”
— Mary Oliver
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy”
— Marie Curie
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”
— Khalil Gibran
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best”
— Duke Ellington
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time”
— Herman Hesse
“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel; our reason is the pilot that steers her.”
— Alexander Pope
“The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Through jazz we learn to persevere its always about getting back on the bandstand and releasing something pure”
— Wynton Marsalis
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique but because of their passion”
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul”
— Bach
“A man can do all things if he but wills them.”
— Leon Battista Alberti
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy”
— Dalai Lama
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Unknown
“There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living”
— Nelson Mandela
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow learn as if you were to live forever”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“There is no way around the hard work embrace it”
— Roger Federer
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower”
— Albert Camus
“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.”
— Confucius
“I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it”
— Pablo Picasso
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
— G.W.F. Hegel
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“If you feel something calling you to dance or paint or sing, it is the length of your life speaking to you.”
— Rumi
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
— Seneca
“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.”
— Angela Duckworth
“Fashions fade style is eternal”
— Yves Saint Laurent
“The present is theirs the future for which I really worked is mine”
— Nikola Tesla
“There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
“Do what you love, and the money will follow.”
— Marsha Sinetar
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act the rest is merely tenacity”
— Amelia Earhart
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”
“Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
— Howard Thurman
“Do not pray for an easy life pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
— Bruce Lee
“To be human is to be driven by passion.”
— Nietzsche
“Everything you can imagine is real”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it”
“The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.”
— Anaïs Nin
“A thousand dreams within me softly burn.”
— Arthur Rimbaud
“The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself”
— Diane von Furstenberg
“Passion is energy feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you”
— Oprah Winfrey
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds.”
— Patanjali
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”
— John Keats
“Find a job you enjoy doing and you will never have to work a day in your life”
— Mark Twain
“The secret to high performance and satisfaction is the deeply human need to direct our own lives”
— Daniel Pink
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
— Joseph Campbell
“One cannot think well love well sleep well if one has not dined well”
— Virginia Woolf
“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”
“We are all just walking each other home”
— Ram Dass
“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, resistance, or madness.”
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed the impeded stream is the one that sings”
— Wendell Berry
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I am”
— Sylvia Plath
“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what is happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what is happening”
— Sharon Salzberg
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
— Federico Fellini
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods there is a rapture on the lonely shore”
— Lord Byron
“If I could tell you what it meant there would be no point in dancing it”
— Isadora Duncan
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“A creative life is an amplified life it is a bigger life a happier life an expanded life and a hell of a lot more interesting life”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you the future will take care of itself”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you”
— Ray Bradbury
“Musicians do not retire they stop when there is no more music in them”
— Louis Armstrong
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have let go”
— Jack Kornfield
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Ask what makes you come alive and go do it”
“If you want to create something truly significant do something that most people cannot even dream of”
— Sadhguru
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“The main thing is to be moved to love to hope to tremble to live”
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it”
— Hannah Arendt
“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them”
— Walt Disney
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”
— Victor Hugo
“Success is no accident it is hard work perseverance learning studying and most of all love of what you are doing”
— Pelé
“If all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago”
— E.O. Wilson
“It is like a beautiful disease that affects me very strongly”
— Cy Twombly
“Everything negative pressure challenges is all an opportunity for me to rise”
— Kobe Bryant
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”
— Helen Keller
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”
— Marcel Proust
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius love love love that is the soul of genius”
— Mozart
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.”
“Take your broken heart make it into art”
— Meryl Streep
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
— Harriet Tubman
“Sometimes it is the notes you do not play that make the music”
— Itzhak Perlman
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
“A single spark in the heart can light up the world.”
— Anonymous
“Without passion, you cannot do anything.”
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”
— Beethoven
“If you want to build a ship do not drum up the men to gather wood but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”
— Ice-T
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice”
— Anton Chekhov
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far but none goes further.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“It is never too late to be what you might have been”
— George Eliot
“What happens to a dream deferred”
— Langston Hughes
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth”
— Muhammad Ali
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“Those who have a why to live can bear with almost any how”
— Viktor Frankl
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are”
“It dont mean a thing if it aint got that swing”
“All real living is meeting”
— Martin Buber
“Never trust a computer you cannot throw out a window”
— Steve Wozniak
“Instructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it”
“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans”
— John Lennon
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
“I paint flowers so they will not die”
— Frida Kahlo
“Life is simple everything happens for you not to you”
— Byron Katie
“Rest in reason; move in passion.”
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot”
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming”
— Pablo Neruda
“Still I rise”
— Maya Angelou
“Chase your passion, not your pension.”
— Denis Waitley
“I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned”
— Richard Feynman
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek”
“Do not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it because what the world needs is people who have come alive”
“Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart”
— Jane Austen
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”
— Isaac Asimov
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life”
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask yourself do I want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future”
— Deepak Chopra
“Do not play what is there play what is not there”
— Miles Davis
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“Only if we understand can we care only if we care will we help only if we help shall they be saved”
— Jane Goodall
“If you feel a burning desire within you, it is because you were meant to follow it.”
“Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does love is a battle love is a war love is a growing up”
— James Baldwin
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
— Plato
“To define is to limit”
— Oscar Wilde
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do, and to do it with a burning sincerity.”
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet”
— Stephen Hawking
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
— Bertrand Russell
“The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet”
— Aristotle
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love it will not lead you astray”
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of living. One must also leave behind the self that one has begun to outgrow.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.”
“A day without laughter is a day wasted”
— Charlie Chaplin
“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself. The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself.”
— Laozi
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
— William James
“This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now”
— Alan Watts
“If you judge people you have no time to love them”
— Mother Teresa
“When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love”
— Marcus Aurelius
“What is all knowledge too but recorded experience and a product of history”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A strong spirit transcends rules”
— Prince
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage”
— Anais Nin
“There is nothing to writing all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
“I do not know where I am going from here but I promise it will not be boring”
— David Bowie
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”
— Anne Frank
“My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion some compassion some humor and some style.”
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.”
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly”
— Pema Chodron
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work”
“Because you are alive everything is possible”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig”
— Epictetus
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
“To follow without halt one aim there is the secret of success”
— Anna Pavlova
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will”
— Charlotte Bronte
“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to”
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope”
— Alexandre Dumas
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”
— Wayne Dyer
“The body says what words cannot”
“I love you without knowing how or when or from where I love you simply without problems or pride”
“I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience”
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
— Walter Pater
“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”
“The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved”
— Jack Kerouac
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives”
— Jackie Robinson
“Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want communicate with others as clearly as you can”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“I dwell in possibility”
— Emily Dickinson
“Creativity is always a leap of faith you are faced with a blank page blank easel or an empty stage”
— Julia Cameron
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart”
— Carl Jung
“Skills are cheap passion is priceless”
— Gary Vaynerchuk
“If you want to be happy be”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
— Denis Diderot
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake”
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”
— Warsan Shire
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
“Keep true to the dreams of your youth”
— Friedrich Schiller
“I exist as I am that is enough”
— Walt Whitman
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love”
— Mooji
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls”
“Beauty will save the world”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You do not have to be a genius you just have to be yourself”
— Austin Kleon
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
“Act nothing in a furious passion. It is putting to sea in a storm.”
— Thomas Fuller
“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long”
— Lao Tzu
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.”
“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
“In everyone life there is at certain stage of our life when we decide who we are”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world”
— Jim Carrey
“Life is meant to be fun and joyful and fulfilling”
— Jim Henson
“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations”
— Rollo May
“He who is not impassioned by the Good is not able to know it.”
— Plotinus
“My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion some compassion some humor and some style”
“Choose to be optimistic it feels better”
“Creativity is a habit and the best creativity is a result of good work habits”
— Twyla Tharp
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking”
— Adyashanti
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive receptive relaxing times the best moments usually occur if a persons body or mind is stretched to its limits”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“The wound is the place where the light enters you”
“One is not born but rather becomes a woman”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Music is a very personal and internal art there is no other art form where you open yourself so much”
— Isaac Stern
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things”
— Hokusai
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exists, there must also be losers.”
“I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career and that is why I succeed”
— Michael Jordan
“Start where you are use what you have do what you can”
— Arthur Ashe
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”
“I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze.”
— Jack London
“One day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted do it now”
— Paulo Coelho
“For what it is worth it is never too late to be whoever you want to be”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings”
— Claude Monet
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery”
— James Joyce
“Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
— Muriel Spark
“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”
— Satchel Paige
“He did it with all his heart, and prospered.”
— King Solomon
“There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
— Germaine de Staël
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness”
— Desmond Tutu
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us”
— Franz Kafka
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage truth and courage are not always comfortable but they are never weakness”
— Brene Brown
“Every artist was first an amateur”
“Be like water making its way through cracks it is not assertive but always finds a way”
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal as time will show”
— Ada Lovelace
“I have no special talents I am only passionately curious”
— Albert Einstein
“Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all.”
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
“I hope for nothing I fear nothing I am free”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
— Richard Bach
“Smile breathe and go slowly”
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity because if you are passionate about something then you are more willing to take risks”
— Yo-Yo Ma
“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
“You are your best thing”
— Toni Morrison
“To play a wrong note is insignificant to play without passion is inexcusable”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
“If we are a metaphor of the universe the human couple is the metaphor of the couple of the metaphor”
— Octavio Paz
“A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself”
— Abraham Maslow
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life”
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
“Work is love made visible”
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
— Hermann Hesse
“Have no fear of perfection you will never reach it”
— Salvador Dali
“What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
— Rupi Kaur
“Wherever you go there you are”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“I was born with music inside me music was one of my parts like my ribs my kidneys my liver my heart”
— Ray Charles
“I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning”
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different”
— Coco Chanel
“One good thing about music when it hits you you feel no pain”
— Bob Marley
“If you feel an impulse to pursue some passion, do not shrink from it; great things have been done by those who had the courage to begin.”
— Hafez
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream”
“Without music life would be a mistake”
“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same”
— Emily Bronte
“The iron ore thinks itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but the tempered blade looks back and knows better.”
“I must have flowers always and always”
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire”
— William Butler Yeats
“Comedy is acting out optimism”
— Robin Williams
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“No one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced”
— David Attenborough
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness”
— Eckhart Tolle
“There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living and faith calls us to live fully”
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
— Maxim Gorky
“You are only given a little spark of madness you must not lose it”
“Only the educated are free”
“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall”
— Serena Williams
“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time”
— T.S. Eliot
“Knowledge is power, but without passion, it is nothing.”
— Stephen King
“Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known”
— Carl Sagan
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas”
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
— Billie Jean King
“There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself”
— Erich Fromm
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision dream or desire a reality”
— Tony Robbins
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“I want people to be afraid of the women I dress”
— Alexander McQueen
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference”
— Robert Frost
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free”
— Michelangelo
“Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself not comparing yourself to others”
— Martin Seligman
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”
— Rachel Carson
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly”
— Buckminster Fuller
“The desire of the moth for the star, of the night for the morrow, the devotion to something afar from the sphere of our sorrow.”
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
“Each person must live their life as a model for others”
— Rosa Parks
“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.”
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”
“He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.”
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
— Joan Crawford
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings”
— William Blake
“Time and silence are the most luxurious things today”
— Tom Ford
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do”
— Steve Jobs
“Hidden nature is secret God”
— Sri Aurobindo
“Take up one idea make that one idea your life think of it dream of it live on that idea”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together”
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor”
— Charles Dickens
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else I only try to dance better than myself”
— Baryshnikov
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