You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas A. Edison

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…

Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman, Coraline

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

If you’re reading this… Congratulations, you’re alive. If that’s not something to smile about, then I don’t know what is.

Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head