Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Helen Keller

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Janet Fitch

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Haruki Murakami

The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people's hearts.

Karon Waddell

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.

Frederick Douglas