“The life given to us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.” Cicero

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” Elbert Hubbard

“The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.” Chinese Proverb

“I know you’ve heard it a thousand time before. But it’s true—hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.” Ray Bradbury

“You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.”

 “This is an art of drawing without an eraser.”  John Gardner

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” -- Albert Einstein

“When the real music comes to me – the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding—that has nothing to do with me ‘cause I’m just the Channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me and transcribe it. Like a medium. Those moments are what I live for.” -- John Lennon

“The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself” Teddy Roosevelt

“You only get out of life what you put into it.”

“Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” -- Les Brown

“Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” -- Aristotle

“Do not worry about what others think of you; just worry about your own opinions.”

“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.”

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” -- Maria Robinson

“No one is perfect; that’s why pencils have erasers.”

“Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can fly.”

“The future depends on what we do in the present.” -- Gandhi

“Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.” -- May Lou Retton

“You can’t laugh in the face of fear, because when you laugh at it, it isn’t fear anymore.” -- Stephen Colbert

“There is always time to make right what is wrong.” -- Susan Griffin

“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do next time.” -- Anthony D’Angelo

“The greatest failure is the failure to try.”

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.” -- George MacDonald

“In good times rejoice, in bad, push through.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” -- Dr. Seuss

“Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.” -- Albert Einstein

“Beauty in things exists only in the mind, which contemplates it.” -- David Hume

“A successful person is the one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.” -- David Brinkley

“The best things in life are the things you have to wait for.”

“Not all is lost when you have only lost once.”

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.” -- Michel de Montaigne

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -- Nelson Mandela

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live”  Elbert Hubbard

“The greatest thing you can ever learn is to love and be loved in return.” --- “Moulin Rouge”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” -- Helen Keller

“The best way out is always through” -- Robert Frost

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. --- James Thurber

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” -- Langston Hughes

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” -- Henry David Thoreau

“Believing in yourself is living your life to the fullest and loving yourself for who you are.” -- Abdi - Mohamed

“The past can hurt. You can either run from it, or learn from it.” -- “The Lion King”

“Imma be livin’ that good life.” -- the Black Eyed Peas