“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one’s self.” —Søren Kierkegaard
“When you have learned something, that always feels at first as if you’ve lost something.” —H.G. Wells
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” —George R.R. Martin
o “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” —Haruki Murakami
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” —G.K. Chesterton
“It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” —Paul Bear Bryant
“Never doubt the power of a small group of people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” —Aldous Huxley
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things…
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals…
“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for t’is better to be alone than in bad company.” —George Washington
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” –Theodore Roosevelt
“So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain
“We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.”…
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything…