It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca the Younger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger

The great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we achieve it.

Michelangelo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

I want by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all I am capable of becoming….This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it; it’s no longer so. I feel happy – deep down. All is well.

Katherine Mansfield: Journal (1922) last entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard

I’ve dreamed in my life dreams that have stayed with me, even after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Emily Brontë

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB

Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.

Anaïs Nin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?

Frank Scully

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Scully

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E.L. Doctorow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._Doctorow