"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
— Blaise Pascal
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them."
— Epictetus
"I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody."
— Jenny Han
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
— Mark Twain
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."
— Alphonse Karr
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
— Milton Berle
"You are your best thing."
— Toni Morrison
"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."
— Roy T. Bennett
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
— Lewis Carroll
"You can be happy about anything. You can be happy about life. You can be happy about music."
— Bang Chan
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
— Bertrand Russell
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
— William Shakespeare
"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."
— Rumi
"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."
— Aeschylus
"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."
— Aristotle
"Base your understanding of the world on data, rather than journalism."
— Steven Pinker
"Strive to make small changes and learn something new daily, because there is always these experiences you have had to tap into for the future."
"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them."