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Marie Curie

Diana, Princess of Wales

Leonardo da Vinci

Marcel Proust

William Shakespeare

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Edgar Allan Poe

If a little day-dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words: wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas

Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Diana, Princess of Wales

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Rabindranath Tagore

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

"The rule is, jam tomorrow, and jam yesterday— but never jam today." "It must come sometimes to 'jam today,' " Alice objected. "No, it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: today isn't any other day, you know."

You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. … Don't stop to marvel.

Albert Einstein

How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, "Who in the world am I?" Ah, that's the great puzzle!

"There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare;
To-morrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

Vinny Guadagnino

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day. Music was important. Football was the easy part.

Zinedine Zidane

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

Ramana Maharshi

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Christina Rossetti

There is a destiny that makes us brothers:
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back onto our own.

I care not what his temples or his creeds,
One thing holds firm and fast
That into his fateful heap of days and deeds
The soul of man is cast.