Lines worth carrying around

Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Tell the truth but tell it slant — success in circuit lies.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Common sense is not so common.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

No one can see the color of my soul.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.