"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it."

-John Keats

"Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden."

-Voltaire

"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there."

-Richard Feynman,

The Character of Physical Law (1965)

"Two roads diverged 

in a wood,

 and I —

I took the one 

less traveled by,

And that 

has made 

all the difference."

-Robert Frost

"Nature is 

often hidden; 

sometimes overcome; 

seldom 

extinguished."

-Francis Bacon

"Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."

-Mahatma Gandhi

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

-Hafez

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

-Rumi 

(As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work by Linda J. Ferguson)

"My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation."

-Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

-Albert Einstein

"Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good."

-Thomas Paine

"In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure."

-Confucius

"Good friends 

are like 

stars... 

You don't always 

see them, 

but you know

 they are 

always there."

-Unknown

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

-Aristotle

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

-Charles Dickens

"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."

-Charles Darwin

"No pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage-ground of truth."

-Francis Bacon

"The root of happiness is altruism — the wish to be of service to others."

-Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama