Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Peace begins when we stop fighting ourselves."

"The imagination creates reality."

"Inspiration is everywhere for those who seek it."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"Dreams are the pathway to the soul's destiny."

"Motivation comes from within; inspiration from beyond."

"Literature allows us to live a thousand lives."

"Politics is the art of the possible and the impossible."

"Perseverance is the virtue that separates the great from the ordinary."

"The creative spirit cannot be extinguished by the material world."

"Kindness is the only true strength."

"Life without love is merely existence."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

"What comes from the heart goes to the heart."

"The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"Beauty is a living, breathing thing, not a static ideal."

"In nature there is no blemish but the mind."

"Every reform was once a private opinion."

"The artist is an inventor, not a slave to nature."

"No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."

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

"He who with due sincerity is in pursuit of truth will surely find her."

"The worst ills which befal us come from ourselves."

"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."

"Pain itself is in no case an everlasting evil; it ceases when we cease to feel it."

"Calmness is the resting place of the wise."

"The dwarf sees further than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to stand on."

"Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve."