Thoughts

"No matter what problem you may have to face today, there is a solution, because you have nothing to deal with but your own thoughts. As you know, you have the power to select and control your thoughts, difficult though it may be at times to do so. As long as you think that your destiny is in the hands of other people, the situation is hopeless. Remind yourself constantly that you have nothing to deal with but your own thoughts. Write this down where you will see it often. Have it on your desk. Hang it in your bedroom. Write it in your pocketbook. Write it on your soul."
-Emmett Fox

Travel

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. And many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Mark Twain

As If

"If you treat an individual as he is he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

Change

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
-Andy Warhol

Failure

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt ; Man in the Arena speech

Scars

"A scar is never ugly...we must see all scars as beauty. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived."
-Chris Cleave Little Bee

Middle

"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive."
-Robert Frost