"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."
— Jane Austen
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
— Voltaire (reflective theme)
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
"What we do now echoes in eternity."
— Marcus Aurelius (popular paraphrase of meditations)
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
— Confucius (English translations available)
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
— Blaise Pascal
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them."
— Epictetus
"I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody."
— Jenny Han
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
— Mark Twain
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."
— Alphonse Karr
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
— Milton Berle
"You are your best thing."
— Toni Morrison
"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."
— Roy T. Bennett
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
— Lewis Carroll
"You can be happy about anything. You can be happy about life. You can be happy about music."
— Bang Chan
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
— Bertrand Russell
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
— William Shakespeare
"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."
— Rumi
"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."
— Aeschylus
"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."
— Aristotle