“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” ― Maurice Switzer

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.” — Bob Newhart

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.” — Mary Renault

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.” ― Lloyd Alexander

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” ― Madeleine L'Engle

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglass

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.” ― Tim Burton

“Humanity lives in its fiction.” — Blaise Cendrars

“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