
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!
Mr. Keating

Work is love made visible.
Kahlil Gibran

No man defines who you are.
An editorial interpretation.
The line rejects the idea that a man has the authority to determine another person’s identity.
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First of all, be what you are.
Georges Bernanos

You are what you choose to be.
Hogarth Hughes

In your choices lies your talent.
Stella Adler

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It matters if you just don't give up.
Stephen Hawking

Never put an age limit on your dreams.
Dara Torres

May we know unity – without uniformity.
Dwight David Eisenhower

So shines a good deed in a weary world.
Willy Wonka

Evil has only the power that we give it.
Ray Bradbury

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
English proverb

This above all: to thine own self be true
William Shakespeare

If a man does his best, what else is there?
General George S. Patton, Jr.

It’s all about the journey, not the outcome.
Carl Lewis

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.
Misattributed to Kobe Bryant

Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.
Mr. Keating

The shell must break before the bird can fly.
Alfred Tennyson

Life’s about the journey, not the destination.
An editorial interpretation.
What matters in life is the experience of the path itself rather than the place you finally reach.
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Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
Bryant McGill

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
Toni Morrison

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

I want to know what's out there! I want to see it!
Ray Kinsella

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
Bryant McGill

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
Samuel Ullman

Oh the things you can find If you don’t stay behind!
Dr. Seuss

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

I don’t care what you believe in, just believe in it.
Book

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.
Henry David Thoreau

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Misattributed to Victor Hugo

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Confucius

Don't be afraid of death... but rather the unlived life.
Angus Tuck

It's not good to dwell on dreams and forget how to live.
Dumbledore

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb

Fate be changed, look inside. Mend the bond torn by pride.
The Witch

I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.
Robert Browning

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
Marlee Matlin

It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
Batman

One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.
Joseph Joubert

I'm a woman / Phenomenally. / Phenomenal woman, / That's me.
Maya Angelou

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller

You don’t always have to be who they want you to be, you know.
Kat

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Joan Borysenko

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy

That’s the beauty of music. They can’t take that away from you.
Andy

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
Jim Stovall

I do not regret the things I have done, but those I did not do.
Lucas

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
Willy Wonka

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou

Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Sam’s Dad

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Abraham Lincoln

No one has the right to feel hopeless, there’s too much work to do.
Dorothy Day

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
Mother Teresa

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
Rumi

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For every feared thing there is an opposing hope that encourages us.
Umberto Eco

Buddha says “A child without courage is like a night without stars!”
Punjab

Everything is possible if you put your mind, body and spirit into it.
Criss Angel

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.
Godfrey of Ibelin

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Consider your origins

Losers are people who are so afraid of not winning, they don't even try.
Grandpa

You're supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for God's sake!
Iris

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides

Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.
Patrick

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.
Bryant McGill

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt

We are the possible. We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world.
Maya Angelou

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
Kobe Bryant

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Misattributed to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Andy

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Christian

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid. Let's go!'
Maya Angelou
Oh the things you can find If you don't stay behind! On Beyond Zebra! (1955)
Dr. Seuss

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
II Timothy

See, once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you. And once in a while, people may even take your breath away.
An editorial interpretation.
Only rarely do people pleasantly surprise you, and now and then someone may even leave you breathless.
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On a day like this, a day when so many prayers are answered and so many aren’t, we take our miracles where we find them, we close the gap, and against all odds, against all logic, we touch.
An editorial interpretation.
On a day when some prayers are answered and many are not, the speaker says we accept whatever miracles we can find and reach across the distance to touch, defying the odds.
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To listen is to learn, and to understand is to inspire.
An editorial interpretation.
Listening opens the way to learning, while understanding gives someone the ability to inspire.
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The darkest hour is that before the dawn. English proverb
It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness. Chinese proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese proverb
Dance as if no one is looking, work as if you didn't have to, and love as if you've never been hurt. Source unknown.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. On becoming a writer, NY Times (May 21, 1986)