Meaning
"The journey is the reward."
- Chinese Proverb
"Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem" - Latin
"From the shadows and imagination to the truth" - Anglo-saxon
- John Henry Newman
"The pen is mightier than the sword".
William Shakespeare
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair."
- Walker Percy
"Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have."
- Arthur E. Morgan
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
- Chamfort
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
- Goethe
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart."
- Helen Keller
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."
- Henry Ford
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
- Alphonse Karr
"There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy."
- Unknown
"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
- Ben Franklin
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
- Ben Franklin
"Here are Socrates' two simple rules for life:
Know Thyself
Take nothing in Excess"
- Socrates
"I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life--I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life--day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it."
- Robert Fulghum
"Wisdom comes more from living than from studying."
"I suspect you of cherishing a dream that you will find some man who will provide the central meaning in your life. I distrust this dream because I believe that the central meaning must come from yourself. If you can't find it there you won't find it...In fact, I wonder if it is possible to love without having achieved a degree of personal fulfillment within oneself."
- Eleanor McGarr
"Life can only be understood sdrawkcab … but must be lived forwards"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"For long you'll live and high you'll fly,
and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry,
and all you touch and all you'll see
is all your life will ever be"
- Pink Floyd
"Take your time, think a lot, think of everything you got, for you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not"
- Cat Stevens
