Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Patience is not the absence of action but right timing."

"The greatest gift we can give is our time."

"Nature speaks to those who listen with their hearts."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"The truth is like a lion; it does not need our defense."

"To change oneself is to change the world."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of understanding."

"The heart knows what the mind cannot comprehend."

"Philosophy is the art of being happy through reason."

"Great literature speaks to the eternal in us."

"Leadership is the art of inspiring others toward a common purpose."

"The bonds of family are forged in the fires of time."

"Work becomes a pleasure when it serves a purpose greater than oneself."

"Dreams are the language of the unconscious mind."

"Humor is the spice of life and the healer of wounds."

"Strength is not in the absence of vulnerability but in its acknowledgment."

"Fear teaches us what we value."

"Power is the ability to create, not to destroy."

"The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM."

"He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast."

"Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live."

"The improper use of words is the foundation of all human confusion."

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."

"The happiness which is lacking makes one think of the happiness which remains."

"Talent is power; tact is skill; good nature is trust."

"Life flows through the eternal, like rivers through the eternal land."