Robert Browning

"Fear slew the yearning and the hope of man."

"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."

"The world is not concluded; there are more worlds beyond."

"To find the faith you seek, look within your own heart."

"Knowledge by suffering entereth, and life is perfected by death."

"How sad and bad and mad it was, but then how it was sweet."

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

"The moment eternal—just that and no more."

"Art may tell a truth obliquely, drawing the soul with silence."

"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me."

"Less is more in matters of the spirit and creative vision."

"The unspoken word can move mountains where speech falls short."

"Patience is the wisdom of waiting for the right moment."

"God is in his heaven and all is well with the world."

"Beauty lies not in the object but in the beholder's soul."

"To love is to undergo transformation of the deepest kind."

"The failure of one dream births the possibility of another."

"Where the will is ready, the way appears."

"Music speaks the language that words cannot capture."

"In darkness, the soul learns to manufacture its own light."

"The poet's task is to reveal the invisible in the visible."

"Success is not the destination but the journey undertaken."

"To grow, one must shed the skin of yesterday's self."

"The greatest adventure awaits those who dare to think deeply."

"Imagination is the eye through which we see eternity."

"Let us be grateful for what we have, however small."

"A single act of kindness echoes through eternity."

"The strength to endure is itself a form of strength."

"History is the mirror in which nations see their souls."

"Philosophy begins in wonder and ends in understanding."