Astronomy has revealed the great truth that the whole universe is bound together by one all-pervading influence.
—William Leitch (American Sports Journalist, Author)
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
—I Ching (Ancient Chinese Divination Text)
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
—Henry Fielding (English Novelist)
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
—Grandma Moses (American Folk Artist)
Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.
—Sam Shoemaker (American Clergyman)
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan (American Statesman)
Difficulty is a nurse of greatness—a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them into strength and athletic proportions.—The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.
—William Cullen Bryant (American Poet)
We were made to receive and give away way more love than we’re tempted to just settle for. Go for broke.
—Bob Goff (American Philanthropist)
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
—Eugene Ionesco (French Dramatist)
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
—Lance Morrow (American Essayist)