"Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light."

Unknown, Source | Temper | 3 bookmarks

"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph | Youth | 6 bookmarks

"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."

Colby, Frank Moore | Temper | 5 bookmarks

"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich | Love | 103 bookmarks

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard | Change | 80 bookmarks

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark | Action | 64 bookmarks

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath | Adversity | 51 bookmarks

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore | Love | 38 bookmarks

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. | Hope | 20 bookmarks

"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid | Hope | 35 bookmarks