“Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again – this is the brave and happy life.”

“Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!”

“Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.”

“Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”

“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”

“For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.”

“That’s the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I’d change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.”

“The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.”

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”