First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

J.K. Rowling

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

Benjamin Franklin

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Voltaire

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

Marquise De SeVigne

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Buddha

It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal.

Steve Maraboli

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

Source Unknown

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Walter Benjamin

You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealisticsomeone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.

Lisa Kleypas

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron