"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
– E.E. cummings

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
– Kahlil Gibran

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.""
– Norman Vincent Peal

"Take chances, take a lot of them. Because honestly, no matter where you end up and with whom, it always ends up just the way it should be. Your mistakes make you who you are. You learn and grow with each choice you make. Everything is worth it. Say how you feel, always. Be you, and be okay with it."

"Try to discover
The road to success
And you’ll seek but never find,
But blaze your own path
And the road to success
Will trail right behind."
— Robert Brault

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
— Judy Garland