Don’t ever believe that where you are now is the only possibility!

— Unknown source

Climb mountains so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

— Nancy McFadden, U.S. lawyer and political liaison between the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the White House, 1958-2018

Some men see things as they are and say, ‘why?’ I dream things that never were, and say, ‘Why not?’

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950

Not that I want to be a god or a hero – just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

— Czeslaw Milosz, Polish writer, Nobel laureate, Born 1911

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

— DagHammarskjold, Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second Secretary-General of theUnited Nations, 1905-1961

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

— Toni Morrison, U.S. novelist, editor, educator, and Pulitzer Prize recipient, Born 1931
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