The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Marcel Pagnol

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Marian Wright Edelman

Experience is a hard teacher because it gives the test first, and the lesson afterward.

Vernon Law

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

Confucius

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

Criss Jami

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

William Goldman