My crown is in my heart, not on my head; Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: My crown is called content; a crown it is that a seldom king enjoy.
~William Shakespeare, Henry VI

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face; Not always smiling, but at least serene.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Accept things as they are, not as you wish them to be.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
~Samuel Butler

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
~Coco Chanel

I am weary of swords and courts and kings. Let us go into the garden and watch the minister's bees.
~Mary Johnson

One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age.
~May Sarton

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.
~Epictetus

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
~Henry Miller

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death take their proper place in life, and one of not afraid.
~Pearl S. Buck

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching fourth unto those things which are before.
~Philippians 3:13

Do you know why that cow looks over the wall?... She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles - look over and above them.
~John Wesley

All the irritations of daily life subject your mind and nerves and then your muscles to repeated tension. You can work out most of this tension with your exercise program, but if you are smart, you will try to avoid most of the tension to begin with.
~Dr. Leon Roof

Don't get your knickers in a know. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
~Kathryn Carpenter

If you can alter things, alter them. If you cannot, put up with them.
~English Proverb

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities... We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
~Henry David Thoreau

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
~Samuel Johnson

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool; it will be all one a hundred years hence.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Luck and strength go together. When you get lucky, you have to have the strength to follow through. You also have to have the strength to wait for the luck.
~Mario Puzo

The past exists only in memory, consequences, effects. It has the power over me only as I give it my power. I can let go, release it, move freely. I am not my past.
~Anonymous

The most visible creators I know of are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible - without brush, hammer, clay, or guitar. They neither paint or sculpt - their medium is being. Whatever their presence touches has increased life. They see and don't have to draw. They are the artists of being alive.
~J.Stone

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.
~Ethel Barrymore

If it makes you happy to be unhappy, then be unhappy.
~Anonymous

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Follow what you love!... Don't design to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.
~Georgie Anne Geyer

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why not try to look like a Pekingese?
~Dame Edith Sitwell

Being a grown-up isn't half as fun as growing up.
~This Diary by The Ataris

When you fail, you learn alot! But when you succeed, you, ehm, don't learn that much, ya know...
~Meet the Robinsons

Keep moving forward.
~Walt Disney

You have to be willing to make changes and not get too attached to it.
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I want to do my best, even if I can never be the best.
~witch-girl-pilar