"When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."

-John Lennon 

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

-Christopher McCandless

"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

-Lewis Carroll

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see." 

-Henry David Thoreau

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

-Oscar Wilde

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway." 

-Eleanor Roosevelt

"A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song." 

-Vera Nazarian

"You may think I'm small, but I have a universe inside my mind."

-Yoko Ono

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

-Mark Twain

"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole."

-C.G. Jung

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

-Anais Nin

"Nothing happens until something moves."

-Albert Einstein

"May you live every day of your life." 

-Jonathan Swift

"Realize that if a door closed, it's because what was behind it wasn't meant for you." 

-Mandy Hale

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." 

-Soren Kierkegaard

"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'"

-Viktor E. Frankl

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

-John Lennon

"A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure."

-Henry Kissinger

"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more."

-Roy T. Bennett