What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau

Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can do.
John Wooden

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
Jim Rohn

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.
Oscar Wilde

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.
Pope John XXIII

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

We must be the change we want to see.
Gandhi

This above all: To your own self, be true.
William Shakespeare

In three words I can sum up what I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost

I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again.
Etienne de Grellet

Imagine.
John Lennon

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozel

Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale, “The Philosopher”

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

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
African Proverb

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Albert Einstein

Whatever you are be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
John Ciardi

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde

All philosophy in two words, – sustain and abstain.
Epictetus

Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.
Janis Joplin

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
Hippocrates

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

Dig the well before you are thirsty.
Chinese Proverb

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes

I have not failed.I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
Bernard Baruch

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
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