A collection of quotes I have collected over time. Usually something that makes me think, a universal truth or funny.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. (Scott Finch) — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts. (Scott Finch) — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. (Atticus Finch) — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It’s knowing you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. (Atticus Finch) — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

You never really understood a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around it. (Atticus Finch) — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks. (Scott Finch) — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Well, it’s better to be silent than to be a fool. — Harper Lee

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. — Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. — Nelson Mandela

Where you stand depends on where you sit. — Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until it’s done. — Nelson Mandela

Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. Because it sees more, it is willing to see less. — Rabbi Julius Gordon

You can easily judge the character of a person by how they treat those who can do nothing for them. — James D. Miles

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. — James 3:7-8 (NIV)

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. — Nelson Mandela

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. — Paul Coelho

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. — Paul Coelho

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. — Paul Coelho

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. — Paul Coelho, The Alchemist

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity. — Paul Coelho, The Alchemist

What’s the world’s greatest lie?… It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate — Paul Coelho, The Alchemist

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn. — Paul Coelho

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart. — Paul Coelho, The Alchemist

Love is an untamed force.
When we try to control it, it destroys us.
When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.
When we try to understand it, it leaves us lost and confused. — The Zahir

Don’t try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent — Paul Coelho, The Alchemist

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge. — Lao Tzu

A wise dog doesn’t let his fleas bother him — Unknown

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt

You might be driven more by a fear of failure than a desire to succeed — J.K. Rowlings

First comes conservation. And if that doesn’t work, confiscation. — Dan Denning, The Daily Reckoning

I trust so few that it is much easier to simply keep no secrets — Nathaniel Summers, X-Men

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. — Albert Einstein

We are always getting ready to live but never living — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion — Dalai Lama

Absence makes the heart grow fonder — Thomas Haynes Bayley

In war…as in love…you never count the cost until the shooting is over. Then, of course, you regret the whole thing… — The Daily Reconning

People believe what they need to believe when they need to believe it — The Daily Reckoning

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. — Albert Einstein

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. — Rabindranath Tagore

The future is a place you arrive at whether you like it or not — Dan Denning, The Daily Reaconing

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. — Juma Ikangaa

Life is the major cause of death — Unkown

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past. — George Carlin

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. — Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. — Abraham Lincoln

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. — Abraham Lincoln

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious — Oswald Spengler

People come to think what they must think when they must think it — Daily Reconning

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau

Gold is the currency of kings, silver of princes, barter is of peasants, debt is currency of slaves… — Unknown, Daily Reckoning

Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it. — Bronnie Ware, http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html

Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness. — Bonnie Ware, http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. — Napoleon Hill

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. — Xenocrates

You may delay, but time will not. — Benjamin Franklin

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. — Albert Einstein