"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

-Ghandi

"...To believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief;...to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything..."

-Francis Thompson

"The tragedy of life is not death, but what dies in a man as he lives."

- Unknown

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

- Unknown

"There are 2 ways of spreading light- to be the candle; or the mirror that reflects it."

- Unknown

"Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport."

     - Graffiti

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life.

But there is always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first,

some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid.

Then life would begin.

At last it dawned on me that these obstacle are my life."

- Alfred D. Souza

"The human heart feels what the eyes cannot see,

and knows what the mind cannot understand."

- Robert Valett

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."

- Hazlitt

"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."

- Knights of Pythagoras

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove

with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable

stars; and the world will be better for this."

- Cervantes, The Impossible Dream

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

    So throw off the bowlines.

        Sail away from the safe harbor.

            Catch the trade winds in your sails.

                Explore.

                    Dream.

                        Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Work like you don't need money.

Love like you have never been hurt.

And dance like no one is watching."

- Unknown

"It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow."

- Unknown

"Silently,

one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven,

blossomed the lovely stars,

the forget-me-nots of angels."

- Longfellow

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"Do not pray for an easy life. Pray to be a strong person."

- Unknown

"All the wonders you seek are within yourself."

- Sir Thomas Brown

"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it,

you might as well laugh about it now."

- Marie Osmond

"Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.

Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure."

- Jaeger

"A path without obstacles probably leads nowhere."

- Defalque

"Faith is the bird that sings while it is still dark."

- Ponsy

"A man's life is dyed the color of his imagination."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself."

- Unknown

"Heal the past;

live the present;

dream the future."

- Unknown

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,

for they shall never cease to be amused."

- Unknown

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was,

the sort of house I lived in,

or the kind of car I drove...

but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."

- Unknown

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

- John Ruskin

"After awhile you learn that what you really are

is all the experiences

and all the thoughts you've ever had

and all the people who have touched you life,

no matter how briefly."

- Unknown

"What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears. The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind."

- Victor Hugo

"Let no man imagine that he has no influence."

- Henry George