"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."
— Alphonse Karr
"I'm young and have many hidden qualities; I'm young and strong and living through a big adventure."
— Anne Frank
"Remain patient in your ways, for with The Universe, there are no delays and your rewards will do nothing but amaze."
— Thabiso Makekele
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
— Aristotle (commonly paraphrased from ethical writings)
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
— Seneca
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
— Arthur Schopenhauer
"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
— Socrates (recorded by Plato)
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
— Implied in classical thought (commonly echoed)
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
— Mark Twain
"In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer."
— Albert Camus
"Sunlight is the most precious gold to be found on Earth."
— Roman Payne
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
— Colin Powell
"Know that this world is full of beauty if you have the eyes to see it."
— Louisa May Alcott
"The winds of change whisper that tomorrow holds wonders we cannot yet conceive."
— Pep Talk Radio
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
— Plutarch
"Sometimes all you can do is laugh."
— M. Price
"I think, therefore I am."
— René Descartes
"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."
— Aeschylus
"Human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution."
— Steven Pinker