Quotage

For as long as I can remember, I have collected quotes. Inspiring words. Bits of comfort. Things I could relate to. Motivation. Wisdom. On a daily basis I write down things I hear, see or think that really click. The list is endless; no better place to start than the here and now. Bon Appetit 

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others.
It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy.
It has eyes to see misery and want.
It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men.
That is what love looks like.
- St. Augustine

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar. – Helen Keller

I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. do not search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. - Rainer Maria Rilke

 

[Art is] the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hofmann, Abstract Expressionist, 1952

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco ChanelBottom of Form

What i dare to think is that our society really needs more people who specialize in the "impossible." - Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-SamsÆe

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle

Luck is the time when opportunity and preparation meet. – Chapin

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. - Aristotle

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Goethe

To know someone with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed...that can make this life a garden. - Goethe

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. - Horace Greeley

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Jung

You will not believe how glad I am that I have met you. - Janacek

sometimes when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. -  lamartine

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you! -christian d. larson

now is the right time. - lotus sutra

barn's burnt down, now I can see the moon. -masahide

walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. let their spirit light a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it... - Wilfred Peterson

love generously, praise loudly, live fully. - porter

live with intention. walk to the edge. listen hard. practice wellness. play with abandon. laugh. choose with no regret. continue to learn. appreciate your friends. do what you love. live as if this is all there is. -mary anne radmacher

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

the world is not respectable. it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms... - George Santayana

fall in love... or fall in hate. get inspired or get depressed. ace a test or flunk a class. make babies or make art. speak the truth or lie and cheat. dance on tables or sit in the corner. life is divine chaos. embrace it. forgive yourself. breathe. enjoy the ride.... - Solbeam

happiness is a journey, not a destination. for a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. but there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. at last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. this perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. happiness is the way. so treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one. - Souza

life does not put things in front of you that you are unable to handle. - unknown

what would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? - unknown

1. the path is not straight.
2. mistakes need not be fatal.
3. people are more important that achievements or possessions.
4. be gentle with your parents.
5. never stop doing what you care most about.
6. learn to use a semicolon.
7. you will find love.
- marion winik

Champion the right to be yourself. Dare to be different. Live your own life and follow your own star. - Wilfred Peterson

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but these, I reckon, will give you a good lift! – Abraham Lincoln

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. – Robert Heinlein

The strong grows in solitude where the weak wither away. - Kahlil Gibran

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. - Arthur Wellesley

Your treasure-your perfection- is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desired of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. - Liz Gilbert, from Eat, Pray, Love

Those things that hurt, instruct. - Benjamin Franklin

If it sounds stupid it probably is. - Anonymous

Let go, or be dragged. - American Proverb


Adulthood is the ability to self-reflect, to constantly rethink one's actions. - Friend of a friend


A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. - Jim Morrison


We succeed only as we identify in life, or war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that objective. - Dwight D. Eisenhower


Begin anywhere. - John Cage


This is your world. Shape it or someone else will. - Gary Lew


If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison


"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland