"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."
— Johannes Gaertner
"It's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not, like thinking. And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about."
— John Cleese
"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving."
— John Dewey
"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."
— John Holmes