If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Only the weak are cruel.

Gentleness can only be

expected from the strong.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective:  an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.  

~Christopher Morley

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
~ Josh Billings

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Bob Marley

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.  
~ Henry David Thoreau

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.  
Sai Baba

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. 

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The time is always right to do what is right.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

~ Mark Twain