Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

I want to dream a dream so wonderful that I'll wake up sorry that it wasn't a memory.

Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.

You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else.

Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health... you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.

Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.

Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that dont matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency.