If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image, 1

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

Alexander Pope

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Sir John Denham

Pray to understand what man has forgotten.

American Indian Proverb, Lumbee

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

Wayne Rooney

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Source Unknown

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

Joel Hodgson

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or,

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

Kris Allen

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

Alicia Keys