The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. ~~ J.R.R. Tolkien in Lord of the Rings

It’s simple: Treat yourself well, while not harming others. Treat others well, while not harming yourself. ~~ Mark Manson

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. ~~ From Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. ~~ Stephen King

Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ~~ Henry Ford