Today I will not stress over things I can't control." —Unknown

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." —Bob Marley

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything." —Jack Kornfield

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller

There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” ~ Ranata Suzuki

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ~ Albert Einstein

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” ~ Serena Williams

“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” ~ Jim Rohn

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”  ~ Oscar Wilde

“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” ~ Tony Robbins

 “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” ~ Margaret Mead

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” ~Rick Riordan

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ~ Arthur Ashe

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” ~ Farrah Gray

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stow

“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ Lolly Daskal

“If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville

“The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.” ~ Les Brown

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ~ John D. Rockefeller

“The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.” ~ Matty Mullens

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin

“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.” ~ Michelle Williams

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” ~ Michael Korda

“There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” ~ Michael John Bobak

“I rebel; therefore I exist.” ~ Albert Camus

“There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.” ~ Charles Dickens

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ~ Victor Hugo 

“The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” ~ Terence McKenna

“There is no truth. There is only perception.” ~ Gustave Flaubert

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” ~ Carl Jung

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The only reason we get lost in thought, is because it is unfamiliar territory.” ~ Ashton Leinen

“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” ~ Victor Hugo

“All the mistakes I ever made in my life were when I wanted to say No, and said Yes.” ~ Moss Hart

“Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” ~ Neil Strauss

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” ~ Stephanie Perkins

“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”~ Albert Einstein

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.” ~ Martin Heidegger

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” ~ Mark Twain

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill

“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. —Walter Anderson

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”- Brian Tracy

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”- George Addair

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”– Helen Keller