“When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.”

“Within sorrow is grace. When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.”

“Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”

“Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.”

“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

“The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.”

“No one's head aches when he is comforting another.”

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”

“No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.”

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. ”

“To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.”

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”

“The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.”

“It is better to be faithful than famous.”

“We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.”

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ”

“ 'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ”

“There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living. ”

“All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.”

“I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ”

“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.”

“Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.”

“Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.”

“Were it not for hope the heart would break.”

“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”

“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. ”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. ”