Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. ― Epictetus

---

The more you read, the more things you will know. — Dr. Seuss

---

Good things take time. — John Wooden

---

A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future. Denis Waitley

---

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

---

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems ― Epictetus

---

Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better. I worry about many things, but not about water over the dam. ― Walt Disney

---

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

---

Joy is not in things; it is in us. ― Richard Wagner

---

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. ― Epictetus

---