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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #3
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #4
    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
    "I don't much care where –"
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

  • #6
    Adam Braun
    “Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest”
    Adam Braun, The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

  • #7
    Thor Heyerdahl
    “Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.”
    Thor Heyerdahl

  • #8
    “You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”
    Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo

  • #9
    “Merely showing a picture of a tree to an accountant in an office block has a small but measurable effect in reducing his or her blood pressure. Actually moving about among trees soothes us far more deeply.”
    Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo

  • #10
    Robert Nathan
    “Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage - and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still - the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.”
    Robert Nathan

  • #11
    Omar Khayyám
    “The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
    -- Omar Khayyam
    ...

    Nor will I: ever write a word that fades in light, this I must be certain; else lay desolate at bight. <3”
    Omar Khayyam, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

  • #12
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #13
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

  • #14
    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #15
    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #16
    Jon Acuff
    “Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle, or your middle to someone else's end. Don't compare the start of your second quarter of life to someone else's third quarter.”
    Jon Acuff

  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #18
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #19
    Seth Godin
    “People don't believe what you tell them.
    They rarely believe what you show them.
    They often believe what their friends tell them.
    They always believe what they tell themselves.”
    Seth Godin

  • #20
    Seth Godin
    “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
    People will follow.”
    Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

  • #21
    Seth Godin
    “The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.”
    Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

  • #22
    Seth Godin
    “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”
    Seth Godin

  • #23
    Seth Godin
    “A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.”
    Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

  • #24
    Seth Godin
    “How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”
    Seth Godin, Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

  • #25
    Seth Godin
    “Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”
    Seth Godin

  • #26
    Seth Godin
    “A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.”
    Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

  • #27
    Charles Scott Sherrington
    “Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.”
    Charles Sherrington

  • #28
    William Blake
    “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
    William Blake

  • #29
    William  James
    “To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,”
    William James

  • #30
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are”
    Anaïs Nin



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