Valentina Fahle

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe

"A year from now you will wish you had started today." —Unknown

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” —Isabel Allende

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." —Calvin Coolidge

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill

“We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall

“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that's where it's at." —Jesse Owens

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” ―Maya Angelou

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” – Marcus Aurelius

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

“You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away.” —John Graham

“To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” —Ruth Gordo

“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” —Raymond Joseph Teller

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

“If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.” ―Clayton M. Christensen

Whatever life plants you, bloom with grace.

“Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish – it makes you indestructible.”

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. - Stan Smith

“Don’t throw away your old shoes until you have new ones.” – German proverb

“Life is short, your heels shouldn’t be!” – Brian Atwood

“Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself on the inside and out.” Anonymous

“Fashion is what you are offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.” – Lauren Hutton

“People will stare. Make it worth their while.” Harry Winston

“I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and her body.” – Calvin Klein

“Just for today, smile a little more.” — James A. Murphy

Peace begins with a smile

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow” – Anita Desai