“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.” – Yann Martel

“Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” – Rumi

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel De Montaigne

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.” – George Orwell

“Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.” – Seneca

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” – George Eliot