"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others." Ellen Degeneres (b.1958)

"Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith." Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

"As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die." Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken." Albert Camus (1913-1960)

"He who awaits much can expect little." Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014)

"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it." Paulo Coelho (b.1947)