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You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Commencement address at Stanford University (12 June 2005)
- Experience
Our problems are manmade — therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963A Strategy of Peace (1963)
- Hope
We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Zen in the Art of Writing (1990)
- Writing
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
José Martí1853–1895Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Character
We don’t have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
Bob Marley1945–1981As recorded in Time Will Tell (1992), a documentary by Declan Lowney
- Education
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
Joseph Gordon-Levittborn 1981Details, 2010
- Art
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Religion
I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), First Part, Zarathustra’s PrologueIn context
- Change
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry V (1599), Prologue, spoken by ChorusIn context
- Poetry
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForIn context
- Life & Death
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Character
Build thee more stately mansions, my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Chambered Nautilus (1858)In context
- Change
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882A Psalm of Life (1838)In context
- Time
The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky,⁠—
No higher than the soul is high.
Edna St. Vincent Millay1892–1950Renascence (1912)In context
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 1In context
- Genius