We are born not with purpose, but with potential.

© Octavia E. Butler @quote

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

© Knute Rockne @quote

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

© Eleanor Roosevelt @quote

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

© Charles Bukowski @quote

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

© Niccolo Machiavelli @quote

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

© John O'Donohue @quote

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

© Rita Mae Brown @quote

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world.

© Brandi Snyder @quote

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

© Zig Ziglar @quote

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

© Robert Southey @quote

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

© Aristotle @quote

There's no friends like the old friends.

© James Joyce @quote

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

© Robert Louis Stevenson @quote

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

© Marcus Aurelius @quote

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

© Pearl S. Buck @quote

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

© Plutarch @quote

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

© Albert Einstein @quote

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

© Tenzin Gyatso @quote

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 @quote

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

© Laurence J. Peter @quote

Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

© Ralph Waldo Emerson @quote