"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." ~William Faulkner
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own." ~Joss Whedon
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." ~J.K. Rowling
"I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time."
~Jack London
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it."
~Mother Teresa
"You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don't have to be. Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you're still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something too. Create to learn a bit more about yourself." ~Frederick Terral
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else." ~Leonardo da Vinci"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." ~Lao Tzu
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~Douglas Adams
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." ~Norman Vincent Peale
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." ~Vincent van Gogh
"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing." ~Georgia O'Keeffe