"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection."
- Buddha -

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it."
- Paul De Rapin -

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave."
- Mark Twain -

"The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours."
- Earl Riney -

"Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.”
- Marva Collins -

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."
- Winston Churchill -

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt -

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”
- George Bernard Shaw -

"Success comes not from the avoidance of failure. Most of the time, success is achieved only when there has been enough failure."
- Unknown Author -

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
- Henry J. Kaiser -

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but, rather something to be achieved.”
- William Jennings Bryan -

"Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.”
- Helen Schucman -

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein -     (from Amy)

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton U.) - Amy

“The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.”
- Nelson Boswell -     (from a CN reader, A)

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
-Louisa May Alcott -     (from a CN reader, Mandy)

“I’ve finally stopped running away from myself, who else is there better to be?” -Goldie Hawn
(from a CN reader)

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