Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!
It's a great day! And if you don't think it's a great day, just try missing one.
If you are somebody to anybody, you're somebody.
When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.