Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. –John F. Kennedy

The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself –Franklin D. Roosevelt

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind. –Unknown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. –Marcus Garvey

If you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain. –Dolly Parton
The past is history, the future is a mystery, and now is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. –Unknown

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split-second when it can be recalled an perhaps remedied. –Pearl S. Buck

Consider the past and you shall know the future. –Chinese proverb

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It is not the end, it is even not the beginning of the end. It is perhaps the end of the beginning. –Winston Churchill

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living, the world owes you nothing; it was here first. –Mark Twain (1835-1910)

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It is better to die on your feet than on your knees. –Dolores Ibarruri

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. –Henry David Thoreau

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. –e e cummings

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. –John G. Riefenbaker

He who has a thousand friends, has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy, shall meet him everywhere. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is more important than knowledge. –Albert Einstein

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. –James Dean

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. –Langston Hughes

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. –Mark Twain

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. –Les Brown

I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time. –Charlie Brown

Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. –Anonymous

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. –Confucious

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. –Shakespeare

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. –Anonymous

It is not length of life, but depth of life. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

It is better to be feared than loved. –Machiavelli

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. –Eleanor Roosevelt

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful; she is beautiful because you love her. –Anonymous

Nobody ever died of laughter. –Max Beerbohm

If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old. –Edward W. Howe

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. –Friedrich Nietzsche

The ends justifies the means. –Machiavelli

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. –Marcus Aurelius “Meditations”

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. –Orison Swett Marden

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. –Dr. Seuss

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. –Anonymous

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. –Anonymous

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. –William Faulkner

Get busy living, or get busy dying. That’s goddamn right. For the second time in my life I’m guilty of committing a crime: Parole Violation. ‘Course I doubt they’ll toss up any road blocks for that, not for an old crook like me. I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I imagine it’s the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at the start of a long journey, whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border… I hope to see my friend and shake his hand… I hope the Pacific is a blue as it has been in my dreams… I hope… –Red from “Shawshank Redemption”

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. –Albert Pike

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. –George Bernard Shaw