Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.Marcus Aurelius
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.Stephen Hawking
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.René Descartes
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?Epictetus
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.Napoleon Hill
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.Franklin D. Roosevelt
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.Desmond Tutu
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.Desmond Tutu
