Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.   — Emmons

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions  and emotions. –John F. Kennedy

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience. . . not from our mental  resolution to try a new form of life. — Leo Tolstoy

You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them. — Esther and Jerry Hicks

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the  sake of other men.  — Albert Einstein