Henry David Thoreau

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, development critic

Amelia Burr

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die."

- Amelia Burr, poet

Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart."

- Helen Keller, author and activist

Viktor Frankl

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

- Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor

Jim Rohn

"The more you care, the stronger you can be."

- Jim Rohn, motivational speaker and author

Ivy Baker Priest

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."

- Ivy Baker Priest, American politician

Robert Fulghum

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death."

- Robert Fulghum, author

Audre Lorde

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde, poet and activist

Pierre August Renoir

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

- Pierre August Renoir, artist

Aeschylus

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present pain"

- Aeschylus, Greek playwright (colloquially known as the "author of tragedy")

John Ruskin

"There is no wealth but life."

- John Ruskin, author, poet, social commentator

George Orwell

"To see what's in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle."

- George Orwell, author.

Robert F. Kennedy

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy, American politician

Benjamin Franklin

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

- Benjamin Franklin

Florence + The Machine

"No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, in the shadow of your heart"

- "Cosmic Love", by Florence + The Machine