Quote cards
Words people shared
One line, lifted from a journal and set on a card. Only the words leave the entry: never the writer's name, never the story it came from.
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young PoetLife in TextA friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
— Elbert HubbardLife in TextWe loved with a love that was more than love.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel LeeLife in TextWhat greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?
— George Eliot, Adam BedeLife in Text’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In MemoriamLife in TextThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen, EmmaLife in TextThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
— Carl JungLife in TextLet there be spaces in your togetherness.
— Kahlil Gibran, The ProphetLife in TextLove is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116Life in TextSome of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
— Hermann HesseLife in TextWhen I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te ChingLife in TextYou can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
— Jon Kabat-ZinnLife in TextLet go, or be dragged.
— Zen proverbLife in TextThe best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.
— Thich Nhat HanhLife in TextSuccess is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying and sacrifice.
— PeleLife in TextInspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.
— Chuck CloseLife in TextAmateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
— Stephen King, On WritingLife in TextNothing will work unless you do.
— Maya AngelouLife in TextGenius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
— Thomas EdisonLife in TextHope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
— Desmond TutuLife in TextWe must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
— Martin Luther King Jr.Life in TextThe world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to ArmsLife in TextIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
— Albert CamusLife in TextThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the IdolsLife in Text