"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him”, Soeren Kierkegaard

"It's the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live", Bette Midler (extract from The Rose)

"The heart has its reasons, Whereof reason knows nothing", Pascal.

“Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, Where is the director? I want to see him.”, Soeren Kierkegaard.

"People with sight see things as they are. The people with insight see things as they could be", Unknown.

"Love is giving somebody the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to", Unknown.

"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings”, Soeren Kierkegaard.

"If you hear a voice within say; "You cannot paint", then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced", Vincent van Gogh.

"We can easily forgive a child that is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when adults are afraid of the light", Plato.

"Every act of creation is also an act of destruction", Pablo Picasso.

"We can never discover new continents until we have the courage to lose sight of all coasts", Andre Gide.

"You are the sculptor and architect, gardner and parent, teacher and student of your life", Unknown.

"If you want to figure out your path in life, you cannot have an end date on the exploration", John Wood.

"A good criterium for meaningful succes is the number of people you have made happy", Unknown.

"If you can show me a person who has made no mistakes, I will show you a person who has achieved nothing", Unknown.

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth", Ludwig Borne.

"If we did all the things we are capable of we would literally astound ourselves", Thomas Edison.

"It is the things that push you the most, that helped you the most", Unknown.

"Kind words can be easy to speak, but their echoes are endless", Unknown.

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone", Pablo Picasso.

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with but whether it is the same problem you had last year", Dulles.

"Great things are not done by impulse but by a small series of things brought together", Vincent van Gogh.

"In the middle of every ocean of difficulty is an island of opportunity", Unknown.

"It is good to have an end to journey towards but it is the journey that matters in the end", Ursula Le Guin.

"The larger the island of knowledge, the greater the shoreline of wonder", Ralph Sockman.

"The sky is not the limit...you are", Unknown.

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away", Unknown.

"Noone grows old by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul", Samuel Ullman.

"Vision without action is just a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world", Joel Barker.

"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself", George Bernard Shaw.

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

"You take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: No one to blame", Erica Jong.

"Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him", Harry Emerson Fosdick.

"The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail", Sri Ramakrisna.

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity", John F. Kennedy.