Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Alan Watts

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Alfred Adler

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Evangeline Cory Booth

If you want to correct your own failings, you do not have the time to waste in blaming other people.

Leo Tolstoy

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

Simon Cowell

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

Victoria

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bertrand Russell

As nature is an image of grace, He has done in the bounties of nature what He would do in those of grace, in order that we might judge that He could make the invisible, since He made the visible excellently.

Blaise Pascal

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work...It would be more useful than divination, anyway...

J.K. Rowling