"My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road"
Beatrice Wood

“In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”
Robert Frost

 “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
Sholem Aleichem

 “No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.”
Sholem Aleichem

“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”
Thomas S. Monson 
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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Concentration is the secret of strength”

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

(Science has shown that, in fact, playfulness is a learned trait, one that benefits us physically, socially, and emotionally at any age.) 

“Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.”

Spoken by actor Tim Robbins in the motion picture “Bull Durham” as written by screenwriter 
and director Ron Shelton, a former minor league baseball player.

Nelson Mandela said:

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” 

"As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison”
 After spending 27 years in prison for opposing apartheid in South Africa.

Aristotle's 11 Virtues
Henry David Thoreau - Life in the Woods
How the Poets Spoke of Life
Amelia Earhart - Courage

Wendell Berry - To My Mother

Walt Whitman - ​This is what you shall do 

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) - Count That Day Lost

​Wendell Berry - Goods