Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Well done is better than well said.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
After a storm comes a calm.
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.