I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. — Miles Davis

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day. ― C.S. Lewis

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Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

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My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. — Thucydides

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The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!

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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. — Helen Keller

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