“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach

"We forget most of our past but embody all of it." — John Updike

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

-Charles Bukowski

Whenever there is an argument between two ideas, find the third idea.

"Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change." -Rob Brezsny

Imperfection doesn’t matter.

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” -Melody Beattie

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. -Frederick Douglass

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” -Jean-Paul Sartre