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

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

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

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

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.” – Mitch Albom

“Insist on yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed or teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.” – Pearl S. Buck

“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