Nicholas Sparks photo

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”

Source: The Notebook

T.S. Eliot photo

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”

Variant: For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

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Source: Four Quartets

William Makepeace Thackeray photo

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

Vol. II, ch. 2.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

Muhammad Ali photo

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Gabriel García Márquez quote: “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Tamora Pierce photo

“As long as there's life, there's hope.”

Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children
Oprah Winfrey photo

“When you know better… You do better.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Joan Crawford photo

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

Joan Crawford (1904–1977) American actress

Interview, Hollywood Reporter (1954)

Helen Schucman photo

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Helen Schucman (1909–1981) Clinical Psychologist

Jesus' Course in Miracles (2000) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 162

Will Ferrell photo
Dr. Seuss photo

“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich photo

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1938) American historian

Source: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

A.A. Milne photo

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

Elizabeth Cady Stanton photo

“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”

Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist

Variant: You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Source: Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul

Judy Garland photo

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

Judy Garland (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States

As quoted in Business Etiquette for the Nineties : Your Ticket to Career Success (1992) by Lou Kennedy, p. 8
Variant: Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.