Some of my favorite quotes

1. "If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
-Henry David Thoreau.
2. "The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before.
"Everyone can create. You don’t need money, position, or influence in order to create something of substance or beauty." -Dieter F. Uchtforf.
3. "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it." Rafiki, from The Lion King.
4. "Tom's name looks the same, whichever side you are on. It is the same whether you approach from the west or the east. It is the same whether you are inside his shop, or outside it, whether you see it in a mirror, or with your own eyes. And Tom himself is like his name. It is a matter of business."
-Tom, from City of the Rats, by Emily Rodda.
5. "We have the power to bore people long after we are dead." -Sinclair Lewis.
6. "The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started." -Dawson Trotman.
7.  “Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
The further sky, the greater length;
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and men good timbers grow.”
-Good Timber, by Douglas Malloch.
8. "Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking." -John Morley.
9. "And now, the spinning. Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile."
-Hiccup, from How to Train Your Dragon.
10. "Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them." -Michael Michalko.