We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
—Robert Frost
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
—Dr. Smiley Blanton
Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.
—Kay Ryan
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
—Laurence Sterne
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
—Oscar Wilde
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
—William Butler Yeats
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.
—Jane Austen
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
—Gautama Buddha
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
—Lucy Maud Montgomery
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
—John Ruskin
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
—Edvard Munch
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
—J. D. Salinger
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
—Katharine Hepburn