Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

self devolpment

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

 

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

dreams

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

 

 

Man Ray,

happy ending

I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

 

 

Gilda Radner

wisdom

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

 

Louis L'Amour,

trust

I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

 

 

Benjamin Disraeli

motivational

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi