Found inscribed over a doorway at Westminster Abbey

Of the craftsmen it may be said that
in the handiwork of their craft is their prayer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature;
her secret is patience.

Longfellow, Ladder of Saint Augustine, st. 10

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

Marcel Marceau

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

Philip Thatcher

Ask not what the world needs;
ask rather what makes your heart sing,
and go do that -
for what the world needs
is people
with hearts that sing.

Henry van Dyke

Be glad of life,
for it gives you the chance
to love, and to work, and to play,
and to look up at the stars.

Goethe

One should, every day at least,
hear a little song, read a good poem,
see a fine picture, and, if possible,
speak a few reasonable words.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision,
the universe conspires to make it happen.

John Muir

This grand show is eternal.
It is always sunrise somewhere,
the dew is never all dried at once,
a shower is forever falling,
vapor is ever rising.
Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset,
eternal dawn and gloaming,
on sea, continents, and islands,
each in its turn
as the round earth rolls.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where the spirit does not work with the hand,
there is no art.

Sign over an old inn, Bray, England

Fear knocked at the door
Faith answered
There was no one there.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I am a part of all that I have met.