Brick Walls

"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people."
-Randy Pausch (1960-2008)

Art

"Ars Gratia Artis" = "Art for Art's Sake"

Tracks

"Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come."
-Under the Tuscan Sun

See

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edward Degas

Pain

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
-Lance Armstrong

Surprise

"There's no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved."
-Charles Morgan

Stretch

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.