Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
― Lao Tzu

People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
― Lemony Snicket
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.
-Einstein
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The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
-Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
-Nietzsche

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- Faulkner