“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
—Abraham Lincoln
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
—Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“If there’s only one nation in the sky, shouldn’t all passports be valid for it?”
—Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
—Elbert Hubbard
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
—C.S. Lewis
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.”
—George Harrison, Cloud Nine
