Bucket list of quotes

Sometimes others can simply say it better. Today, instead of blabbing, I am going to highlight some quotes that have made an impact on me. These are not just random quotes from the web, these are quotes that have changed how I think and more importantly, changed how I act.

"Where there's a will, there's a way"
Samuel Smiles

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
Anaïs Nin

"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place."
Miriam Adeney

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anaïs Nin

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."
Thomas Dewar

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
Anaïs Nin

"Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!"
Gandalf - the Hobbit

“Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold”
Unknown

"Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile."
Unknown