Victor Hugo

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

- Victor Hugo, poet, playwright, novelist, statesman, human rights activist

Abraham Lincoln

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Willa Cather

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles"

- Willa Cather, author

Confucius

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

- Confucius, philosopher and social reformer

William E. Gladstone

"Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and laboured a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world."

- William E. Gladstone, former British Prime Minister

Kin Hubbard

"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit."

- Kin Hubbard, cartoonist, humourist, journalist

Alexi Murdoch

"My salvation lies in your love."

- Alexi Murdoch, "Orange Sky"

Epicurus

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

- Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher

Henri Bergson

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."

- Henri Bergson, philosopher

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."

- Georg C. Lichtenberg, scientist and satirist

Rumi

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it"

- Rumi, 13th century poet, theologian and mystic

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."

- Anne-Sophie Swetchine, mystic

Abigail Van Buren

"The best index to a person's character is a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and b) how he treats people who can't fight back."

- Abigail Van Buren, advice columnist

Alan Alda

"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

- Alan Alda, actor

The Corrs

"And, who knows, I might feel better,
If I don't try and I don't hope."

- The Corrs, "What Can I Do?"

Oliver Goldsmith

"Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith, writer and poet

Abraham Lincoln

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."

- Abraham Lincoln, former President of the USA

Lord Byron

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

- Lord Byron, poet

Mabel Newcomber

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement"

- Mabel Newcomber

Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on"

- Robert Frost, poet

Nancy Astor

"No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that it had one-sided government."

- Nancy Astor, first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament

Abraham Maslow

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."

- Abraham Maslow, psychologist

Anais Nin

"We don't see things as they are, we seem them as we are"

- Anais Nin, author

Oscar Hammerstein II

"Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
Or am I beautiful because you love me?"

- Oscar Hammerstein II, songwriter, producer, director

Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Dante

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality"

- Dante, poet

Alice Sebold

"I live in a world where the two truths co-exist; where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand."

- 'Lucky' by Alice Sebold

Carolina Liar

"I once had a grip on everything, it feels better to let go."

- 'I'm Not Over' by Carolina Liar

Jane Addams

"Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world."

- Jane Addams, activist

Elizabeth Stone

"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body."

- Elizabeth Stone,

Andre Gide

"The most decisive actions of our lives... are most often unconsidered actions"

- Andre Gide, author