Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

© Albert Einstein

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

© Lao Tzu

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

© Epictetus

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

© Marcus Aurelius

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

© David McCullough

The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.

© Japanese Proverb

Everything you can imagine is real.

© Pablo Picasso

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

© Abraham Lincoln

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

© Lauren Bacall

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

© Wayne Dyer

You teach best what you most need to learn.

© Richard Bach

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

© Theodore H. White

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

© Larry Elder

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

© Jim Beggs

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

© John Berry

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

© Pierre Auguste Renoir

If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time.

© Edith Wharton

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

© Harry Burchell Mathews

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

© Alice Walker

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox

© Lao Tzu