Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you’d forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularly life with other people, possible.

Nicole Krauss

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand. The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

Philippians 4:8