“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” ― Amy Tan

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.” ― Markus Zusak

Living For Others

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

What we can understand from this is that anything we do, and do it for others, are the are the things to be remembered even when you're gone. But the things you only do to satisfy yourself fades away when you are no longer around. Which would you prefer, to be remembered, or to be never known?

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” ― Lance Armstrong

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” ― Saul Bellow

“What's meant to be will always find a way” ― Trisha Yearwood

“I am different, not less.” — Temple Grandin

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” ― Herbert Hoover

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” ― Franz Kafka

“We learn from failure, not from success!” ― Bram Stoker

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” ― L.M. Montgomery

Mistakes

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ― Albert Einstein

Proud of never making a mistake. Well let's see what Einstein thought of that. A person who has never made a mistake, never tried anything new. It pretty much changed the way you look at mistakes right? So don't be afraid to try something new, and don't forget to make the mistakes. Because by mistakes, you can learn something new!

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." — Pablo Picasso

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. " — Eleanor Roosevelt

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.” ― Bill Watterson

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” ― Albert Einstein

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.” ― Albert Einstein

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” ― Isaac Newton

“Never memorize something that you can look up.” ― Albert Einstein

“Efficiency is intelligent laziness.” ― David Dunham

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” ― Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

Missing an Opportunity

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work” ― Thomas A. Edison

Work hard on everything. Just maybe you could get a great outcome. Like what Edison said, it may look like work, but inside, it is an opportunity for something amazing. Don't be blocked by laziness. Instead, keep up your work and keep moving forward. Your result may still be far into the future, but you will have to start somewhere.

Artists

“Every artist was first an amateur.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every world wide known artist now, before or in the future started somewhere. Before, they were just regular people. What it implies to you, normal people out there, is that you can be like them. Start somewhere and start now. Try different things. If you fail, try doing the things that you haven't tried before. Lastly, work hard to achieve your goal...

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” ― Albert Einstein

Incredible Things

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ― Carl Sagan

The are many things that are incredible in this world and yet they're still some unknown. Search deep within the world to find these things. The world is magnificent, we just don't know it. It is our job to make this world better and discover the incredible for the future.

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ― Groucho Marx

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ― Oscar Wilde

“We read to know we're not alone.” ― William Nicholson

Jealousy

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.” ― William Shakespeare

Jealous? Well don't be. Why should you be jealous? This is 2 reasons why jealousy isn't needed. One, if you can reach your goal, why be jealous at all. Two, if you can't reach your goal, then there is no use being jealous. Get it?

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.” ― Erma Bombeck

What's your Talent

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” ― Erica Jong

You have a talent! He has talent. She has talent. The only problem is that YOU are not showing it. If you don't know what your talent is, quick, find it! If you have, then what for wait. Develop it now and do something great with it. Either you are good at art, music or acting, who knows by taking a leap forward you might be successful and do great with your talents.

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou

Time

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."  What will you do with your time. The very next second could only exist once. The next minute will never return. The past hour had gone away. What will you do with your upcoming time. REMEMBER! Your time will not be there twice.

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” ― Seneca

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

What is Life

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller

Life is all about adventure. If this is not true for you, that means you're not living it correctly. As we can see what a great adventure Helen Keller went through with her life. It was tough and she felt it. Live your live fully and keep learning new things each day! You have your friends and family to support you, so why not try new things each day and see all the great things you can achieve.

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” ― Albert Einstein

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Virginia Woolf

Peace

“Peace begins with a smile..” ― Mother Teresa

Peace is just wonderful. Look what it can do to the world. Take Nelson Mandela for an example. He brought peace to himself and could bring a nation together. You see now what peace can do. You can too! Be a Peaceful person...

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” ― Jodi Picoult

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?” ― C.S. Lewis

The Truth

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

A quote from Ghandi. He said to not speak of lies, because the truth will not damage a just action. Things will go well and straight if you go with the truth. But, if our actions were wrong, we will hardly hide it. Like it's said, 'The truth will prevail'.

“I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” ― Maya Angelou

Perfection

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” ― Donald Miller

People are not perfect, and they will never be. So stop having very high expectations for them and start to like them for who they are. You will start doing that if you know that they're not perfect. You are too not perfect. 

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” ― Nikolai Gogol

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” ― Markus Zusak

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Friend

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard

Thank your friends for all the things they did for you. Friends are the best and everybody surely needs one. There are many loners out there. Reach out to them and be a great friend to them so they will appreciate what you have done for them. Once again happy Friendship Day, and be a GREAT Friend to others...

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

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

NOW!!!

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ― Bil Keane

Yesterday has passed. We don't know what will be for tomorrow. So live today fully! You wouldn't want to regret anything. Live like today is your last day. Think of what people expect you to do, and do your best in it. Today is a gift, so you should use it wisely.

“Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.” ― Rumi

“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle

“I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.” ― Haruki Murakami

United Ones

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” ― J.K. Rowling

We people must unite and become one. Because when we are together, we are at our strongest state. When we are one, nobody could get in our way. We will be strong if we believe and have trust in each other.