Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. - MARCUS GARVEY

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With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. — Charles R. Swindoll

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Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there. ― Kurt Cobain

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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. - OSCAR WILDE

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. ― Epictetus

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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