“ All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls. Rosalia Castro
“ You have to take it as it happens but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it. Old German proverb
“ My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice my responsibili… Elaine Maxwell
“ What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes! Sophocles
“ Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them. Louis L'Amour
“ Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does. James A. Worsham
“ Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons. George du Maurier
“ It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore. Christian Bovee
“ God why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh lead me to the Beyond within. Macrina Wiederkehr
“ Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say "Well white people kept me back and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you wan… Clara McBride Hale
“ When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that… John Ruskin
“ How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't h… B. C. Forbes
“ You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality. Florida Scott-Maxwell
“ No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains. Louis Brandeis
