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 : – )
- “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve” – Bilbo Baggins, Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)
- “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain” – In the movie Dark Knight written by Jonathan, Nolan’s brother
- “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” – Sirius
- “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
- “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
- “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
- “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
- “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” – Dumbledore (Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling)
- “Work is nothing more than a series of problems that require interesting solutions” – Lawrence Yeo
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Jackson Brown
- “Enough is elusive because when you reach it, you’re no longer the person that once desired it” – Lawrence Yeo
- “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough” – William Blake
- “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)
- “Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath” – Tao Te Ching
- “Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want” – Naval Ravikant
- “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
- “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by” – Douglas Adams
- “You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible” – Bob Marley
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not” – Andre Gide
- “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
- “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle” – Anonymous
- “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read” – Anonymous
- “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one” – George Martin