Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'. ― Santosh Kalwar

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I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

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When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams you can find true happiness! ― Casi McLean

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. – Albert Camus

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The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there. ― Jude Morgan

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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin

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Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances. ― Helen Keller

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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

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Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

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