The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
—Joel A. Barker
The world is governed by opinion.
—William Ellery Channing
Life is a lying dream, he only wakes who casts the World aside.
—Zeami Motokiyo (Japanese Playwright)
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)
When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
—Walter Lippmann (American Journalist)
Confidence is attractive, but vulnerability is disarming.
—Derek Sivers (American Entrepreneur)
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
A wise man should keep far away from an unpleasant person, from injuring others, from other’s views, from unrighteous conduct and from untruth.
—Subhashita Manjari
Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)
The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.
—The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
—Robert Bresson