Aeschylus

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times”

- Aeschylus, Greek playwright

Thomas Merton

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

- Thomas Merton, monk

James Joyce

“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”

- James Joyce, author

Erin McCarley

"Love, save the empty
And save me."

- Erin McCarley, "Love, Save The Empty"

Maya Angelou

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

- Maya Angelou, poet and author

Oscar Wilde

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Winston Churchill

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

- Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Britain

Abigail Van Buren

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."

- Abigail van Buren, pseudonym of Pauline Phillips, advice columnist

Jules Verne

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”

- Jules Verne, author

Emily Dickinson

"That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love."

- Emily Dickinson, poet

Lord Byron

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

- Lord Byron, poet

Joel Barker

“Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.”

- Joel Barker, scholar and futurist

Paramore

"Why do we like to hurt so much?"

- Paramore, "That's What You Get"

Voltaire

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Whoso loves, believes the impossible."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet

Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Chuck Palahniuk

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”

- Chuck Palahniuk, journalist, satirist and novelist.

Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Don Byas

"You call it madness, but I call it love."

- Don Byas, musician

Charles R. Swindoll

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

- Charles R. Swindoll, American writer and clergyman

George Bernard Shaw

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright, critic,

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet

Demosthenes

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."


- Demosthenes, Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens

C.S. Lewis

"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."

- C.S. Lewis, author

Rumi

"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be."

- Rumi, 13th century poet, theologian, mystic

Barack Obama

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

- Barack Obama, president of the United States of America

Alice Sebold

"No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved"

- "Lucky" by Alice Sebold

Anais Nin

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

- Anais Nin, author