Book inspires

How far you go in life by George Washington Carver

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with 

the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with 

the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong, because 

someday in your life you will have been all of these”

 
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Decide where to go by Dr Seuss

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your 

shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. 

You’re on your own. And you know what you know. 

And you are the one who’ll decide where to go”

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Explore, dream and discover by Mark Twain

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed 

by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did

do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe 

harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, 

Dream, Discover.

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Two roads by Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a 
world and I took the one 
less travelled by”

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Design your own life by Jim Rohn

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are 

you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what 

they have planned for you?

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Improve the world by E B White

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve 

the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it 

hard to plan the day.”

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Difference between education and experience 

by Pete Seeger

“Do you know the difference between education and 

experience? Education is when you need the fine print; 

experience is what you get when you don’t”

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Get on living and loving by Leo Buscaglia

“Don’t broad. Get on with living and loving. You don’t 

have forever”

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Imagination by Azar Nafisi

“You need 
imagination 
in order to 
imagine a 
future that 

doesn’t exist”

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Humour by Christopher

“Humour is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; 

and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday 

affairs”

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Light goes out by Albert Schweitzer

“Sometimes our light goes out, 
but is blown again into instant 
flame by an encounter with 
another human being”

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Education by Oscar Wilde

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth to 

remember from time to time that nothing that is worth 

knowing can be taught”

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Sunshine by John Ruskin

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces 
us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such 
thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good 
weather”

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Movies by Andy Warhol

“It’s the movies that have really been running things in 

America ever since they were invented. They show you 

what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about 

it, and how to look how you feel about it”

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Moments of happiness by Unknown Author

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. 

It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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 Indispensable by Ben Stein

“ The indispensable 1^st 
step to getting the things
you want out of life is this: decide what you want”

  

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It’s indifference by Elie Wiesel

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The 

opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. And the 

opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

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Human beings by Douglas Adams

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the 

ability to learn from the experience of others, are also 

remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so”

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Change by Henry David Thoreau

“Things do not change; we 
change”

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Archaeologist by Agatha Christie

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. 

The older she gets, the more interested he is in her”

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Laughing by Cullen Hightower

“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. 

Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it”

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Music by Sidney Lanier

“Music is love in search of a word”

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Dined well by Virginia Woolf

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has 

not dined well”

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Dream by Christopher Reeve

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then 

they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the 

will, they soon become inevitable”

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Darkest places by Dante Alighieri

“The darkest places in hell are 
reserved for those who maintain 
their neutrality in times of a 
moral crisis”

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 People by Oscar Wilde

“Most people are other people. 
Their thoughts are someone 
else’s opinions, their lives a 
mimicry, their passions a 
quotation”

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Own growing by Abraham Lincoln

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall 

your grandfather was”

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Regrets for things not done by Sydney J Harris

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by 
time; it is regret for the things we did not do that 
is inconsolable”

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Music by Henry David Thoreau

“When I hear 
music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. 

I see no foe. I 
am related to 
the earliest times, 
and to the latest”

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Man’s success by George S Patton

“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs 

but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

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Wise man by Bruce Lee

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question 
than a fool can learn from a wise answer”

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Young cynic by Maya Angelou

“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he 

has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing”

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Carry a cat by the tail by Mark Twain

“A man who carries a cat by 
the tail learns something he 

can learn in no other way”

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Friendship by C S Lewis

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person 

says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the 

only one”

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Opportunity door by Bruno Mars

“You can’t knock 
on opportunity
door and not 
be ready”

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Dance by William Purkey

“You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching, love 

like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening 

and live like it’s heaven on earth”

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Opportunity by Thomas Edison

“Opportunity is missed by most 
people because it is dressed in 
overalls and looks like work”

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Read books by Haruki Murakami

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, 

you can only think what everyone else is thinking”

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Change by Barack Obama

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person 

or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting 

for. We are the change that we seek”

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See the world by Ray Bradbury

“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream 
made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, 
ask for no security”

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A kiss by Ingrid Bergman

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed 
by nature to stop speech when 
words become superfluous”

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Tenderly drowsy by George Jean Nathan

“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the 

species of woman in whose company he finds himself 

electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose 

company he may feel tenderly drowsy”

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Angry people by Jane Austen

“Angry people are not always wise”

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Travel by Gustave Elaubert

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place 

you occupy in the world”

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Friend by Anais Nin

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly 

not born until they arise, and it is only by this meeting 

that a new world is born”

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Angry by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty 
seconds of happiness”