Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. - Mae West

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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it. ― Booker T. Washington

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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.

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Our fate lives within us; you only have to be brave enough to see it. – Merida, Brave

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God requires you to do what is right. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? ― Margaret Atwood

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Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. ― Jim Rohn

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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. ― Anne Carson

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