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 may lead.

-Louisa May Alcott-

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what’s that?Come up with a smiling face. It’s nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there - that’s disgrace.

-Edmund Vance Cooke-

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

-Confucius-

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

-Hugh Downs-

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach-

Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

-Goethe-

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

-Henrik Ibsen-

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

-W. Somerset Maugham-

Imagination rules the world.

-Napoleon-

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

-Napoleon-

What Does Not Destroy Me Makes Stronger.

-Friedrich Nietzsche-

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

-Theodore Roosevelt-

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

-Edith Södergran-

The sun fills my breast with sweet honey up to the brim and she says: all stars fade at last, but they always shine without fear.

-Edith Södergran-

To strive, to seek, and not to yield.

-Alfred Lord Tennyson-

Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain-

Fortune favors the brave-

-Vergilius-