Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. _ George A. Sheehan

---

Being oppressed means the absence of choices ― bell hooks

---

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. — Emma Watson

---

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

---

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. — Max Lucado

---

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. — Picabo Street

---

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

---

Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt

---

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

---

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

---