We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Henry Rollins
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
Morrie Schwartz
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…"he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word."What a stupid lamb,"I sighed."What a sick, masochistic lion.
Stephenie Meyer
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Elie Wiesel