"Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking."
— Rick Steves
"Be purposeful about putting yourself in a stimulating environment where your creativity can take flight."
— Germany Kent
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."
— Roy T. Bennett
"Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
— Saint Augustine
"It's not too late. Some of your very best memories haven't even happened yet."
— Eleanor Brownn
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
— Jane Austen
"Things are always better in the morning."
— Harper Lee
"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey
"Courage, dear heart."
— C. S. Lewis
"You can dance in the rain or sulk in the rain. It will rain regardless."
— William Mulligan
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates (recorded by Plato)
"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
— Henry David Thoreau
"While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations."
— Martin E.P. Seligman
"Keep calm and carry on."
— Winston Churchill
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J. K. Rowling