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“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”
— André Gide
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. ”
Bruce Lee
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
Napoleon Hill
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
Steve Jobs
“There is only the one reality, neither to be realized nor attained.”
Huang Po
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
Dale Carnegie
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
— Arthur Ashe
“The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.”
Walt Whitman
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.”
Rumi
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
Leo Tolstoy
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Better late than never.”
Spencer Johnson
“The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.”
— Anonymous
“Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.”
Les Brown
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Albert Einstein
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon
“Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day!”
Og Mandino
“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”
Alexander Pope
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
Aristotle
“Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.”
Isaac Newton
“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”
Henry Ward Beecher

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