The images that follow are part of a project in which I write out some of my favorite quotes by hand in order to build my typography skills.  To see others, check out the Handwritten Quotes page.

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” -Henry Adams

Source: The Education of Henry Adams

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, – that is genius.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Self-Reliance

“The big things – how we think, what we value – those you much choose yourself.  You can’t let anyone – or any society – determine those for you.” -Morrie Schwartz

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“The only thing that is unqualifiedly good is extended vision, the enlargement of one’s understanding of the nature of things.” -Huston Smith

Source: The World’s Religions

“When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the time when the peoples of the world first came to take one another seriously.” -Huston Smith

Source: The World’s Religions

“Moral ineptitude risks not the wrath of a diety, but the retardation of one’s own inner development.” -Huston Smith & Philip Novak

Source: Buddhism: A Concise Introduction

“The intimate interplay between the body and the mind is the essence of yoga.” -Jean Couch

Source: The Runner’s Yoga Book

“Doing anything with attention to how you feel is doing yoga.” -Jean Couch

Source: The Runner’s Yoga Book