"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark | Action | 72 bookmarks

"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Action | 7 bookmarks

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Sarcasm | 4 bookmarks

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Music | 4 bookmarks

"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Present | 4 bookmarks

"I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Self-control | 5 bookmarks

"Boredom: the desire for desires."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Bores and Boredom | 1 bookmarks

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Change | 1 bookmarks

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Change | 15 bookmarks

"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."

Tolstoy, Count Leo | Wisdom | 3 bookmarks