The best way to predict the future is to create it
Abraham Lincoln
In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the years in your life
My only regret, Anna - but is it only one? - is to not have finished anything. I left all as a draft, shattered words here and there.
Alexandre in Bruno Ganz: Alexandros
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
Batman
The truth is everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for
Bob Marley
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal
C.S. Lewis
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is
Charles Bukowski
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won
Churchill
We can't change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails
Cora L.V. Hatch
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened
Dr. Seuss
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory
The reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once
Einstein
We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan and into the fire
Eric Hoffer
Cowards never start, the weak never finish
Father Fehily
Wise too late, old too soon
Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and stare for a while, it might pass you by
Ferris Bueller
Without leaps of imagination, you lose the excitement of possibility.
Gloria Steinem
Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come
Haruki Marakami
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki Murakami
There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self
Hemmingway
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man
Heraclitus
Artists without an air of loneliness are boring
Hidemi Kon
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants
Isaac Newton
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple
Jack Kerouac
Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party
Jimmy Buffett
All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
Leo Tolstoy
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Leonardo da Vinci
"Oh, you can't help that", said the cat. "We're all mad here"
Lewis Carroll
Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness
Michelangelo Antonioni
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily
Napoleon
I know no better purpose for life than to die in service of the great and the impossible
Nietzsche
Pretend to be completely in control, and people will assume you are
Nolan Bushnell to Steve Jobs
If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story
Orson Welles
To cure the soul by means of the senses, and senses by means of the soul
Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all
Good artists copy, great artists steal
Picasso
There are many things of which a wise man may wish to be ignorant
Ralph Emerson
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
Scott F. Fitzgerald
His sturdy egoism could no longer sustain his peremptory heart
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Shakespeare
One that has loved not wisely, but too well
Parting is such sweet sorrow
The unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates
Better to be a pirate than join the navy
Steve Jobs
The end is where we start from
T.S. Eliot
We beat well worn paths
You should be aware of the system but lose yourself in it
I find my truest self in solitude
People are who they are
In the end, it's all about old friends
We're not all one thing
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin
Never make decisions when you're reeling from a loss
The best things in life lie on the other side of sacrifice
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not pursue it. That's exactly what makes it worth pursuing, where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk. The only true failure is shrinking away from life's challenges.