Take away love and our earth is a tomb
Robert Browning

Wisdom is the reward you get for a life time of listening when you would  have preferred to talk
Dough Larson

Do not take life too seriously. you will never get out of it alive
Elbert Hubbard

Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat
Harry Emerson Fosdick

No one can make you feel small without your consent
Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson 

The ancestor of every action is a thought. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. 
Seneca

Time as he grows old teaches all things. 
Aeschylus

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. 
Samuel Johnson

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. 
Anais Nin 

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. 
Bertolt Brecht 

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. 
Henry Ward Beecher 

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. 
Baruch Spinoza

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. 
Anatole France

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. 
Samuel Johnson