If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways.

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears

One always needs readjustment in his life at some or the other time.

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents’ footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in – that whole cycle. That’s not just a small-town thing. That’s a life thing.

In literature, we find the universality of human experience

Forever isn’t long at all, Christopher, as long as I’m with you.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?” “I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

I’m not a jack of all trades; I’m a master of many. I don’t feel there is anything I can’t do if I want to

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

We’ll find out what we’re made of When we are called to help our friends in need

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

There are as many nights as days, and one is just as long as the other in the year’s course

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn’t happen, but even my coaches have told me that it’s sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term

AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, “The dew.” The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger

Clumsy jesting is no joke

Zeal should not outrun discretion

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched

Life ain’t worth living if you’re not taking risks

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.