life

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
~Robert Frost

connect

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
~Herman Melville

waiting

We seem to have focused so much on exuberant beginnings and victorious endings that we've forgotten about the slow, sometimes tortuous, unraveling of grace that takes place in the 'middle places'. We have to relearn that things in life don't come suddenly.
~Sue Monk Kidd (adapted)

autumn

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus

happiness viewpoint

I am more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
~K. Wilhelm von Humboldt

keep progressing

If you really want something, work hard, take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.
~Jane Goodall

argument

The aim of an argument should not be victory, but progress.
~Joseph Joubert

doing the right thing

Doing the right thing means you ask for nothing in return. When things really work, it's because people realize that we all save one another... we manage to save each other.
~Benzair Bhutto

opinions

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
~Les Brown

a call from a long-lost pal

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
~Ashley Montagu

chances

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.
~Julia Soul

failure

The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
~Marianne Williamson

thoughts

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
~John Stuart Mill