No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Heraclitus

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. 

Vincent Van Gogh

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. 

Willie Nelson

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. 

Abraham Lincoln

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think. 

Douglas Horton

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. 

Maya Angelou

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. 

Lord Byron

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. 

Ovid

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. 

Paramahansa Yogananda

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'. 

Sebastian Horsley

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. 

Arthur Rubinstein

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. 

Mahatma Gandhi

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. 

Winston Churchill

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. 

Anais Nin

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a  socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. 

Tom Waits