"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
~Helen Keller

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
~Helen Keller

"Do you recall, from your childhood, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow."
~Rainer Maria Rilke (thanks Sara)

"You can never argue with buttery saltiness."
~Ron Toews, aka Dad, on enjoying the simple things

"I cannot afford to waste my time making money."
~Louis Agassiz (thanks jG)

"Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true."
~Lord Alfred Tennyson (thanks Anna)