Dreams
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
—Langston Hughes (American Novelist)
Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe. The more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
—Maya Angelou (American Poet)
If you know something, it is in your head. When you believe something, it is in your heart.
—Unknown
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?”
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
—Robert Brault
Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
—Paul Goodman
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
—Unknown
I am never a failure until I begin blaming others.
—Anonymous