Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Where would be the merit if heroes were never afraid?

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Today is the hour of destiny.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by;
Go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time!

From the right point of view, every storm and every drop in it is a rainbow.

What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.

I have thrown off my body,
Spirit, I put on wings!

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

You may shoot me with your words,
you may cut me with your eyes,
you may kill me with your hatefulness,
but still, like air, I'll rise!

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.

Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you’re looking down.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Seek silence in the midst of the tumult, seek solitude in the masses, light in the midst of darkness; find forgetfulness in injury, victory in the midst of despondence, and courage in the midst of alarm, resistance in the midst of temptation, peace in the midst of war.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.