"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
From THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K. LeGuin.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you anywhere.
~ Cher

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way.
If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
- Unknown

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or aquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead."
Gelett Burgess

"Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art."
Charles McCabe

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
––Carl Sagan, American astronomer (19 — 1996)

Men go fishing all their lives without knowing it is not fish that they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within.
- Epictetus
(50 AD - 138 AD)

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who…live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
––President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 — 1919)

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
- Mae West

The dream was always running ahead of one. To catch up, to live for a
moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
~ Anais Nin

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
--Henry Ford

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
––Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader (1869 — 1948)

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple,
pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the spirit.
- Kahlil Gibran

Always there remains portions of our heart into which no one is able
to enter, invite them as we may.
~ Mary Dixon Thayer

"I can't" is a coward,
"I'll try" is a soldier,
"I will" is a king.
~~ Unknown ~~

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to
wait on divine live; to write truth first on the table of one's own
heart--this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
~ Mary Baker Eddy