These were collected over years, some in my mind, some elsewhere. I will start with something that is so relatable to this topic by Ralph “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet” which is what I have done here and this by Mark Twain “It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you.” and so I have presented them here to share the happiness as it were : – )
“Work is nothing more than a series of problems that require interesting solutions” – Lawrence Yeo
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. – Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.” – L.R. Knost
‘one can’t believe impossible things’ – Alice said. ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard M. Baruch