Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Stephen Covey

The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development.

Alain de Botton

Be your authentic self, not the person you think other people expect you to be.

Payal Kadakia

Look. You can't plan out your life. What you have to do is first discover your passion—what you really care about.

Barack Obama

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

Natalie Goldberg

There is always an opportunity to start again and again, if the old ways are not working last year, look for better ways of doing it in the new year and start again afresh.

Bamigboye Olurotimi