Inspirational:
- “The most important thing is not to give up on yourself when you are young, giving in to negativity or cynicism. Don’t compare yourself to others. Be true to who you are and try to cherish your own irreplaceable life. Even if you’re sometimes laughed at, or people let you down, keep going forward and never let yourself be defeated.” - Daisaku Ikeda
Wisdom:
- “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” - Abraham Lincoln
Funny:
- “A man that carries a cat home by its tail learns a lesson that can be learned in no other way.” - Mark Twain
- “Better to keep quiet and let people think you’re an idiot, than to say something and prove them right.” - Mark Twain
- “Don’t pray in my school and I won’t think in your church.” - unattributed
- “At NPR we can’t always guarantee the news will be good, but we can guarantee it will be well done.” (NPR)
Poetry:
Arthur O'Shaughnessy. 1844–1881
6. Ode
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
