"Everyone can change tomorrow. Everyone solves problems tomorrow. But the only changes that matter are the ones I make today. Tomorrow is the easiest day I'll ever live. Today is the scary one, which is probably why I've spent so much time avoiding it."

~ Josh Riebock

"Your success is never final, your failure is never fatal, it is courage to continue that counts." 

~ Winston Churchill

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

~ Isaac Asimov

When you find a redemptive explanation for your suffering, you move from victim to wounded healer.

~ Donald Miller

“The past is our definition. we may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” --Wendell Berry

"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain."

~ Anonymous

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

~ Lena Horne

‎"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

~ Tom Bodett

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”

~ Muhammad Ali

There is a way in which a fish swimming around in a fishbowl knows nothing at all about water. Because water is so much a part of the fish's life. If you want the fish to really understand water, you have to take the fish out of the fishbowl and say, "Look, that's water."

~ Unknown

‎'Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.'

~ Joshua Marine

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

~ C.S. Lewis

"Much of what God allows in your life is not for you to simply accept, but to get you to rise up! God wants you to know how to wield the weapons of warfare, how to take a stand, and how to fight."

~Stasi Eldridge in Captivating

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

~ Oscar Wilde

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

Abraham Maslow

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

~ Sophocles

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

~ Isak Dinesen

"We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."

~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

~ Nancy Reagan