That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it’s because you’re truly a wise man. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You’ve got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you’re not. – Chris Colfer
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. – Frances E. Willard
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that–warm things, kind things, sweet things–help and comfort and laughter–and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. – Aeschylus
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. – Oscar Wilde
Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day. – Robert Jordan
Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. – Lauren Oliver
Talent is a gift, but character is a choice. – John C. Maxwell
Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade… – King James Gadsden
Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day. – Robert Jordan
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. – James Baldwin
