We could never learn to be brave and patient
if there were only joy in the world.


Helen Keller

Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.


Charles Kingsley

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life.

Scott Murray

Remember this, and also be reminded of its truth
the future is not in the hands of fate, but in ourselves.


Jules Jusserand

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

Mother Teresa

Life is the childhood of our immortality.


Goethe

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

After winter comes the summer.
After night comes the dawn.
And after every storm,
there comes clear, open skies.


Samuel Rutherford

Though no one can go back and make a new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.

Carl Bard

Be not afraid of growing slowly.
Be afraid only of standing still.


Chinese Proverb

Every dawn, each man is offered, again,
the freedom of choice. While life remains,
there is always the opportunity to remake the world.


Jim Coleman

The gap between our professed values and our practiced values is the gap between us and our happiness.

Marc Gafni

Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while my heart beats, give them today while my heart yearns for jubilee. Now is the time ..

Mzwakhe Mbuli

The time is always right to do what is right.


Martin Luther King Jr.

One should count each day a separate life.


Seneca

The greatest use of life is to spend it
for something that will outlast it.


William James

Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see the shadows.


Helen Keller

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life, but define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

The problem is not that there are problems.
The problem is expecting otherwise
and thinking that having problems is a problem.


Theodore Rubin

To live is so startling
it leaves little time
for anything else.


Emily Dickinson

Serious people have few ideas.
People with ideas are never serious.


Paul Valery

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

Taoist Proverb

There was never a night or a problem
that could defeat sunrise or hope.


Bern Williams