Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

- Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

- Carl Rogers

Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

- C. S. Lewis

Change before you have to.

-Jack Welch

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

-William Shakespeare

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

-Gustav Mahler

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

-Henry Kissinger

If we followed our feelings all the time, we would be like cats chasing their tails.

- Harper Lee

To kill a mockingbird

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

- Philip Pullman