Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

(Anais Nin)

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Things do not happen. 

Things are made to happen.

"I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear." Nina Simone

The tree that is cut down grows again; the moon wanes after a time waxes again. Thus do wise men reflect and, though distressed, are not overwhelmed.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must also know how to fall.

Dare to be naive.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.

Though we tremble before uncertain futures,may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength,may we dance in the face of our fears.

There are no hopeless situation; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

There are those who say 

fate is something

beyond our command.

That destiny is not our own, 

but I know better.

Our fate lives within us, 

you only have to 

be brave enough to see it.