TD'S QUOTE

 The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

 If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

 Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course. Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

 Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.