The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

© William James @quote

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe

© Abraham Lincoln @quote

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises

© Demosthenes @quote

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

© Michelangelo @quote

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star

© Nietzsche @quote

Give thanks for the rain of life that propels us to reach new horizons

© Byron Pulsifer @quote

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.

© Leo Aikman @quote

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew

© Abraham Lincoln @quote

No garden is without its weeds

© Thomas Fuller @quote

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

© Harry Burchell Mathews @quote

Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments

© Talmud @quote

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith

© Mary Morrissey @quote

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

© Og Mandino @quote

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

© Walter Lippmann @quote

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye

© Cervantes @quote

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

© William Channing @quote

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp

© John Berry @quote

I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential

© Dalai Lama @quote

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them

© Epictetus @quote

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

© Ralph Waldo Emerson @quote