Alexander McCall Smith Quote

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...

Maybe we're just falling stars, we once danced in the same skyline looking down at the world. And we've fallen like all others, from near and far, we've gathered together, but separated by time and sp...