John Wayne: 


Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Henry David Thoreau:


The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Emily Dickinson:

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Oscar Hammerstein:


If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

Remember the song Happy Talk

from

"South Pacific"?

 Check out the song from the movie.

Victor Hugo: 
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved... loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Unknown Author:


Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.

Henry B. Wilson:


He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.

James Buckham:

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun:

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.

Charles Dickens:


Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.