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- Fall down seven times, get up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
- He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.
- Nigerian Proverb
- I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
- Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)
- I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
- Mary Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), Common Sense
- That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-11-05
- We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), Little Gidding
- This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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