"Ruin and recovering are both from within." -epictetus

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."
– Anatole France

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
– Albert Einstein

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
– Thomas A. Edison

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
– Benjamin Disraeli

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
– e. e. cummings

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
– Sir Winston Churchill

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
– Helen Keller

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
– Thomas Jefferson

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
– Vincent van Gogh

"Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through. Face it!"
– Joseph Conrad

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
– Ursula K. Le Guin

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
– Maya Angelou

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
– John Ruskin

"None will improve your lot if you yourself do not."
– Bertolt Brecht

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power."
– Alfred Tennyson

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
– Sigmund Freud

"No one can really pull you up very high — you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains."
– Louis Brandeis

"Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that."
– Harold Kushner

"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
– Swami Sivananda Saraswati

"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do."
– Kathleen Winsor

"I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?"
– William Stafford

"Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it."
– Wally "Famous" Amos

"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
– Matina Horner

"We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart."
– Blaise Pascal

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
– Socrates

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
– Freya Stark

"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life."
– Queen Christina