Khalil Gibran

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose."

- Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

Oscar Wilde

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher and poet

Khalil Gibran

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

- Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

George Santayana

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

- George Santayana, philosopher, poet, author

Oscar Wilde

“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Robert Frost

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

- Robert Frost, poet

Anatole France

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Rudyard Kipling

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."

- Rudyard Kipling, poet and author

Khalil Gibran

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Henry David Thoreau

"It is never too late to give up your prejudices."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet and developmental critic

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

George Santayana

"Sanity is a madness put to good use."

- George Santayana, philosopher, poet, author

Robert Frost

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

- Robert Frost, poet

Anatole France

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Oscar Wilde

“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Henry David Thoreau

"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet and development critic

Anatole France

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Ben Jonson

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."

- Ben Jonson, Renaissance playwright, poet and actor