I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war. - Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life. - Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency

When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. - Roy T. Bennett

Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now. - Roy T. Bennett

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. - Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? - Mary Manin Morrissey

Not being heard is no reason for silence. - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. - Novalis

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent. - Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. (...) You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you. - Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do. - Roy T. Bennett

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. - Diane Von Furstenberg

The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. - Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees. - Kahlil Gibran, The Wanderer

Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. - Walt Disney Company