"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Kindness

in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates

profoundness. Kindness in giving

creates love."

- Lao-Tzu

"If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him ... he will be surrounded by grandeur."

-Henry David Thoreau

“The mind

is everything.

What you think

you become.”

-Gautama Buddha

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

-Albert Einstein

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

-Aristotle

"Poetry should be 

great and unobtrusive, 

a thing which enters into 

one's soul, 

and does not 

startle or amaze with itself, 

but with its subject."

-John Keats

"Here it is standing...
atoms with consciousness
...matter with curiosity.

Stands at the sea...
wonders at wondering... I...
a universe of atoms...
an atom in the universe."

-Richard Feynman

"I am much 

less interested in what is called 

God's word 

than in

God's deeds. 

All bibles 

are man-made."

-Thomas Edison

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

-Stephen Hawking

"The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization."

-Alexander Graham Bell

"The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than him"

-Chinese proverb

"Doubt is the origin of wisdom."

-René Descartes

"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."

-Buddhist proverb

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."

-Jonas Salk

"In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

-Galileo Galilei

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."

-Socrates

"Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish."

-Confucius

"You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others...Practice brings the clear realisation of the oneness of all human beings and the importance of others benefiting by your actions."

-Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

"A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."

-William Shakespeare

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

-Alexander Graham Bell

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

-John Quincy Adams

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

-Albert Einstein

"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