“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”
“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
“Being on the edge isn’t as safe, but the view is better.”
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
Likely spurious quote, UNVERIFIED ATTRIBUTE - Quoted in The Lexington Observer & Reporter (16 June 1864)
1860s
Variant: I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Source: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Book III, ch. 23.
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“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”
Source: "The Subject and Power" (1982), p. 785
“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”
Source: A Moon for the Misbegotten
