" "The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress you need discipline. "

— Dan Waldschmidt

" I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. "

— Margaret Mitchell

" "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." "

— John Locke

" It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world. "

— Mary Oliver

" Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings. "

— Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

" I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. "

— Xenocrates