Words That Move

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

"Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic."

"The more that you read, the more things you will know."

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

"Not all those who wander are lost."

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."

"What you seek is seeking you."

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love."

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"The earth has music for those who listen."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake."

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."

"The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth."

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"It always seems impossible until it's done."