I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.John Muir
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.Nelson Mandela
Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?Eckhart Tolle
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.Jesse Owens
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.Margaret Mead
There were points when I've thought about getting into landscape gardening or getting back to illustrating, but mostly with a bit of a chip on my shoulder.Paul Kaye
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.Anne Frank
The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.Gabrielle Bernstein
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.Baltasar Gracian
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.Hal Holbrook
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?Confucius
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.Friedrich Nietzsche
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.Mark Twain
I lived so carefully, thinking someone was watching. But the stage was empty, the audience never came.Charles Bukowski