Words worth keeping

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.