Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

-Neal A. Maxwell

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An angry man is again angry with himself, when he returns to reason.

-Publilius Syrus

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason

-Francis Bacon

Adversity precedes growth

-Rosemarie Rossetti

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.

-Kathleen Casey Theisen

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

-Jeb Dickerson

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself

-Albert Einstein

It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Hans Selye

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

-Clare Boothe Luce

The unexamined life is not worth living

-Socrates

To learn about other people is science,
to learn to know yourself is intelligence.

-Chinese proverb

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

When you lose, don't lose the lesson

-unknown

I've learned that people will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did,

but people will never forget how you made them feel

-Maya Angelou

Music is the shorthand of emotion

-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Water and words... Easy to pour, impossible to recover.

-Chinese proverb

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

~Henri Louis Bergson

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

-Aristotle

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

-Winston Churchill

The best way out is always through.

-Robert Frost

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

-Dorothy Thompson

If your problem has a solution then...why worry about it? If your problem doesn’t have a solution then...why worry about it?

-Chinese proverb

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.

~Lloyd Douglas

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

-Jawaharal Nehru

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday; so live in the now!

Happiness needs sadness.
Success needs failure.
Benevolence needs evil.
Love needs hatred.
Victory needs defeat.
Pleasure needs pain.

You must experience and accept the extremes. Because if the contrast is lost, you lose appreciation; and when you lose appreciation, you lose the value of everything.

- Philippos

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
-- Thomas L. Holdcroft

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

- Friedrich Nietzche

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let us down, probably will. You'll have your heart broken and you'll break others' hearts. You'll fight with your best friend or maybe even fall in love with them, and you'll cry because time is flying by. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, forgive freely, and love like you've never been hurt. Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs, no second chances. you just have to live life to the fullest, tell someone what they mean to you and tell someone off, speak out, dance in the pouring rain, hold someone's hand, comfort a friend, fall asleep watching the sun come up, stay up late, be a flirt, and smile until your face hurts. Don't be afraid to take chances or fall in love and most of all, live in the moment because every second you spend angry or upset is a second of happiness you can never get back.

- Unknown