Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Collection: Stars
Image of Oswald Chambers
When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
- Oswald Chambers
Collection: Jesus
Image of Rumi
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
- Rumi
Collection: Truth
Image of Sylvia Plath
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
- Sylvia Plath
Collection: Abstract
Image of David Whyte
A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
- David Whyte
Collection: Real
Image of Winston Churchill
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: Cynical
Image of Gretchen Rubin
Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.
- Gretchen Rubin
Collection: Everyday
Image of Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Collection: Anxiety
Image of John C. Maxwell
The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Yesterday
Image of Malcolm X
There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
- Malcolm X
Collection: White
Image of Jim Jarmusch
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
- Jim Jarmusch
Collection: Inspiration
Image of William Whewell
Every failure is a step to success.
- William Whewell
Collection: Failure
Image of Steve Jobs
I want to put a ding in the universe.
- Steve Jobs
Collection: Business
Image of Grantland Rice
When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
- Grantland Rice
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Eckhart Tolle
Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.
- Eckhart Tolle
Collection: Dream
Image of Ellen G. White
A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.
- Ellen G. White
Collection: God
Image of Jami Gertz
I love music and I love to dance.
- Jami Gertz
Image of James Madison
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
- James Madison
Collection: Strength
Image of Anais Nin
The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
- Anais Nin
Collection: Weakness
Image of C. S. Lewis
Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Thinking
Image of Denis Waitley
The truth is, you don’t break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Habit
Image of Socrates
Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
- Socrates
Collection: Men
Image of John Green
All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.
- John Green
Collection: Teenage Love
Image of Richard Stallman
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
- Richard Stallman
Collection: Movement
Image of Alfred North Whitehead
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Collection: Thankful
Image of George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Ram Dass
Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.
- Ram Dass
Collection: Spring
Image of Tina Fey
Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
- Tina Fey
Collection: Being Yourself
Image of Elbert Hubbard
Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
- Elbert Hubbard
Collection: Men
Image of Nicholas Sparks
I lost you once, I think I can do it again.
- Nicholas Sparks
Collection: Notebook
Image of Edgar Allan Poe
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Collection: Writing
Image of Benjamin Graham
To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
- Benjamin Graham
Collection: Investing
Image of Sam Harris
Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.
- Sam Harris
Collection: Lying
Image of John Ruskin
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
- John Ruskin
Collection: Patience
Image of Charles Dickens
To a young heart everything is fun.
- Charles Dickens
Collection: Fun
Image of Seth Godin
You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
- Seth Godin
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Francis Bacon
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
- Francis Bacon
Image of John Calvin
The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
- John Calvin
Collection: Scripture
Image of Edward Tufte
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
- Edward Tufte
Collection: Thinking
Image of Ray Kurzweil
Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.
- Ray Kurzweil
Collection: Phones
Image of John Piper
The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.
- John Piper
Collection: Invincible
Image of Karl Popper
The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.
- Karl Popper
Collection: Falling In Love
Image of Sylvia Plath
Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
- Sylvia Plath
Collection: Rooms
Image of Joseph M. Marshall III
Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.
- Joseph M. Marshall III
Collection: Journey
Image of James Dyson
Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.
- James Dyson
Collection: Mistake
Image of Frank Wilczek
Why is there something rather than nothing?
- Frank Wilczek
Collection: Faith And Reason
Image of Bob Proctor
Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.
- Bob Proctor
Collection: Commitment
Image of Jeremy Clarkson
I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.
- Jeremy Clarkson
Collection: Cost
Image of Tony Robbins
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
- Tony Robbins
Collection: Power