“The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing.” – Agatha Christie

“Self-Acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.” – Nathaniel Brand

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I am permitted to hold for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Every day offers a chance to choose either anger or understanding, bitterness or acceptance, darkness or light. And the choices we make reveal the stuff we’re made of.” – Robin McGraw (wife of Dr. Phil)

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney

“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-recovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” – Sophia Loren

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

“Take the first step, no more, no less, and the next will be revealed.” – Ken Roberts

“One ceases to recognize the significance of mountain peaks if they are not viewed occasionally from the deepest valleys.” – Dr. Al Lorin

“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.” – Khalil Gibran