I have been recording quotes and short texts in a notebook since 1995. Here are some of my favorites. I will add more as I find them.
You go away for a long time and return a different person--you never come all the way back. ~ Paul Theroux
Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~ Shari R. Barr (Fun quote for a vegetarian like me... :)
If you think you are too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito. (From a postcard in Minnesota)
Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance to it. ~ Rubem A. Alves
Always be yourself, even though your circumstances may change. ~ Gen. Choi Hong Hi
The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorders of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics or know the honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. ~ T.H. White
Find something you love, and do it the best you can. ~ Ron Polasaari, Professor at Augsburg College
