Quotes

Some quotes from my Facebook profile...

"I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered." - Sir Isaac Newton

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien

Even a small star shines in the darkness.
~ Finnish proverb

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood.
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost

This above all; to thine own self be true.
~ William Shakespeare

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain)

Dreams are illustrations . . . from the book your soul is writing about you.
~ Marsha Norman

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
~ Plato

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does.
Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.
~ Dwight L. Moody

There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
~ N.P. Willis

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original:
whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will,
nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
~ C. S. Lewis

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I was obliged to work hard. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed just as well."
~ Johann Sebastian Bach

"I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes."
~ Ludwig van Beethoven

"Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why."
~ Anton Webern

Franz Schubert - "Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."