Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.

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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light. — Susan Jeffers

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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama

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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it. ― Booker T. Washington

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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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