Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
- James 1:5

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Victor Frankl

Eat Jell-O, don't be Jell-O. (Anology about not trying to shape yourself to please everyone. Don't mold yourself into something your not.)

The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Psalm 18:2

Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 3:13-14