“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” ― J.K. Rowling

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” ― Thomas Jefferson

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ― Jane Goodall

“Love is the absence of judgment.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

“And still, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me." Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.” ― Hafiz

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” ― Vincent Van Gogh

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” ― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” ― Socrates

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” ― Saul Bellow

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ― Maya Angelou

“If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.” ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan

“What's meant to be will always find a way” ― Trisha Yearwood

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” ― Neil Gaiman, Fables & Reflections

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” ― Langston Hughes

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou

“Its not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” ― Lou Holtz

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh