The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.
Taylor SwiftFor me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
Paul AusterIn a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
Wayne DyerTo be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert FrostThe last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James MadisonThe good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Bob MarleyGive thy thoughts no tongue.
William ShakespeareWe should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
EpictetusPermanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas CarlyleI do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret ThatcherNature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David ThoreauThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI don’t think of poetry as a ‚rational‘ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
Margaret AtwoodThere is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert HubbardThe marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen KellerGreat indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich NietzscheKites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
Winston ChurchillA man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert SchweitzerIt’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.
Richard M. NixonThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus AureliusI went through a lot of battles in high school.
LeBron JamesNot all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TolkienYou have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Robert KiyosakiI was a fighting machine with a will of iron.
Jurgen KloppSo comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TolkienSometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.
Joyce MeyerFew men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.
Charles SpurgeonThe job of art is to chase ugliness away.
BonoOne thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
Franklin D. RooseveltI grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.
Dwayne JohnsonIt sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.
Nipsey HussleIt’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert EinsteinYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz KafkaLike a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
Maya AngelouNever let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Richard M. NixonTo sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.
Ronald ReaganOn a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.
Ayrton SennaPart of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.
Steve JobsPoetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van GoghOur nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise PascalMan will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston ChurchillCertainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.
Ernest HemingwayIt is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott FitzgeraldImperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn MonroeHe that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin FranklinAny man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOne merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
VoltaireA poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert FrostPoetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
David HareTo strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel JohnsonI think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David ThoreauO, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.
Ludwig van BeethovenThe journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao TzuTrue Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.
Robert Baden-PowellI have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee WilliamsGirls are soft and pretty.
Adam SandlerYou must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
Ayrton SennaIf you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.
Edmund HillaryYet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf