A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. 
Wallis Simpson

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller

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Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people. 
Prince

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. 

Bob Marley

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences. 
Carre Otis

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say. 
Barbara McClintock

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space. Ben Okri

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. 
Paulo Coelho

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. 
Confucius

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. 
E. O. Wilson

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us. 
Laurie Colwin

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them. 
Joni Eareckson Tada

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. 
Buddha

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
Robin Williams

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We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way. 
Les Brown

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. 
Pablo Neruda

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. 
Corita Kent

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. 
Denis Waitley

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. 
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. 
Marcus Aurelius

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. 
Ralph Marston

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. 
Zig Ziglar

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful. 
Alexandra Stoddard

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision. 

Dalai Lama

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Nhat Hanh

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Brene Brown

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Marc Chagall

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Denis Waitley

Growth is the only evidence of life.

John Henry Newman

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

William J. Clinton

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Buddha

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Gerard De Nerval

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Meister Eckhart

Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

Don Miguel Ruiz

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Richard Bach

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Junichiro Tanizaki

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Adrienne Clarkson

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Edward Abbey

Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Bil Keane

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Joel Osteen

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Abraham Lincoln