Know or listen to those who know.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
After a storm comes a calm.
Who seeks shall find.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.