Good quotes

I'll add onto this list from time to time, so check back.

To begin with, we need utter tenacity and fidelity. In each man, there is an indomitable quality...the born fighter's refusal to give up as long as he can still remain on his feet and lift his two fists.
-Bruce Catton

Un artiste n'est rien et n'a rien a dire s'il n'accepte pas d'abord d'etre lui-meme.
-Boubacar Boris Diop
(An artist isn't anything and doesn't have anything to say if he doesn't first accept what it means to be himself.)

The joy in life is not in hearing the words "I love you," but in being lucky enough to say them.
- Some TV show, actually. I just wrote it down on a post-it.

What if all verybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say it?
-Tick, Empire Falls

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

— Swedish Proverb

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being
the more joy it can contain

- "On Joy and Sorrow", poem by Khalil Gibran


It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

— Anonymous


Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

— Henry David Thoreau