Apprentice yourself in failure.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

“Passion is momentary; love is enduring.”

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person

The first step to becoming is to will it.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway

“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.” 

“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.” 

“You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.” 

“His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.” 

“A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” 

“She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.” 

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.