When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
–Tecumseh
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tecumseh_5E.html
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
–Thomas Carlyle
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-carlyle
Exuberance is beauty.
–William Blake
http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/biography.xq?b=biography&targ_div=d1
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
–Leo Tolstoy
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
–Francis of Assisi
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=50
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
–Napoleon Bonaparte
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I
The course of true love never did run smooth.
–William Shakespeare
http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
–Victor Hugo
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Hugo
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
–Socrates
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Socrates
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
–John Quincy Adams
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/johnquincyadams
Cora Lee, Regency Romance Author 