Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
-Abraham Lincoln
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
-Epicurus
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The answer to anxiety must come in two parts: dealing with anxiety when it suddenly rears its head in panic attacks and also healing its underlying causes.
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
-William James