Ideas and apples – George Bernard Shaw

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
 
– George Bernard Shaw
 

See the world – Unknown

“People see the world not as it is, but as they are.”
 
– Unknown
 

Imagination – George Bernard Shaw

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
 
– George Bernard Shaw
 

Normal – Alain de Botton

“The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.”
 
– Alain de Botton
 

Life – Neil Gaiman

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
 
– Neil Gaiman
 

Liberation – Alain de Botton

“It’s liberating to recognise that pessimism never protected anyone from disasters.”
 
– Alain de Botton
 

Right and wrong – Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
 
– Rumi
 

Confidence – Woody Allen

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
 
– Woody Allen
 

Youth – Unknown

“You were once the youngest person on earth.”
 
– Unknown
 

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Green grass – Unknown

“The grass is greener where you water it.”
 
– Unknown
 

Choices and abilities – J.K. Rowling

“It’s our choices that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
 
– J.K. Rowling

Sadness and happiness – Jonathan Safran Foer

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
 
– Jonathan Safran Foer
 

Win and learn – Dr Brooke Magnanti ‏

“Some days you win. Some days you learn.”
 
– Dr Brooke Magnanti
 

Yesterday, tomorrow and today – A.A.Milne

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
 
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
 

Procrastination – Uknown

“Procrastination: working tomorrow for a better today.”
 
– Unknown