Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
St. Basil
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Holy Bible
You can't do anything about the length of your life but you can do something about its width and depth.
Shira Tehrani
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese proverb
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Unknown
You've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was
Irish proverb
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.