Antonio Machado

"The only way out is through."

"Life is what we make of it."

"Love is patient, love is kind."

"The truth will set you free."

"Everything passes and everything remains; but our task is to pass, to create paths, to forge ahead through the past."

"In my solitude, I have questioned everything except my questionings themselves."

"The eye you see is not an eye because you see it; it is an eye because it sees you."

"Whoever despises the passion of others calls himself a philosopher, but he is not."

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized in a thousand ways, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered."

"I dreamed of a city, precise and clear, made of marble and crystal, without the dust of the streets."

"The aspiration toward the good is the only sound which comes out of the depths of nature."

"Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking."

"We are dying slowly in the silence of living."

"When you stop understanding life, life stops understanding you."

"The deepest words of the wise man bring us back to ignorance and surprise."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to impress."

"In love, as in travel, caution is often lost at the first step."

"A man with courage is a majority, even if he stands alone."

"Between my past and future, there stands but a single moment: the present."

"The great poets are characterized by the universal quality of their imagination."

"Patience is the virtue of the asses."

"There is no greater wealth than that of good health."

"To define is to confine; the infinite cannot be bounded by words."

"The child who does not dream will never discover the stars."

"We bury our deeds, but they live on in the hearts of others."

"Man, in his reason, is always seeking; in his emotion, always finding."

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."

"In the depths of winter, I learned there was within me an invincible summer."

"Words are poor counters to express the abundance of the heart."