🫒 ‘I would rather have friends in my heart, and none in my pocket, than friends in my pocket and none in my heart’ – Pip, from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

📖 “A man is the master of his own destiny.” – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

📖 “Decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage – pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically – to say “no” to other things.” – from First Things First by Steven Covey

🌊 “Life is not made of little victories and little defeats. It is made of a few overwhelming defeats and a few overwhelming victories.” – Jake Barnes, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

🤖 “Never tell me the odds!” – Han Solo, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

🕉️ “तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय।” – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Meaning: Lead me from darkness to light.

🐼 No problem. Here is the quote you requested: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda

🫒 ‘Never lose faith in the kindness of others; the world is full of it. – Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens’

🌊 The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.: The Old Man, from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

📖 “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” – Bhagavad Gita