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“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered.”
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
— Winston Churchill
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”
— Tom Hanks
“Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.”
— Ralph Marston
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
— Kabir
“Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.”
— Jacqueline Woodson
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
— Jim Rohn
“Your setback is just a setup for a comeback.”
— Steve Harvey
“To love means loving the unlovable.”
— Gilbert Chesterton
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but something to be achieved.”
— William Jennings Bryan
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
— Thomas Paine
“If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude about it. Don't complain.”
— Maya Angelou
“There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.”
— Will Rogers
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Family not only needs to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also of those whom we'd give blood.”
— Charles Dickens
“I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.”
— Carl Sandburg
“Lost time is never found again.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.”
— Steven Wright
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
— Lao Tzu
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
— Maya Angelou
“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“All problems are illusions of the mind.”
— Eckhart Tolle

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