If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

Mary Shockley

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller