"Popularity is people liking you.  Happiness is you liking you."

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.  Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.  Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty,complete it.  Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise,fullfill it.  Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.  Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy. confront it.  Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.  Life is life, fight for it."

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared,ambition inspired, and success achieved."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature."

"To live is so startling it leaves little time  for anything else."

"What is to give light must endure burning."