The flower that blooms in adversity, is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Mulan

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Ghandi

Not until we are completely lost or turned around…
Do we begin to find ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no better way of thanking God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Helen Keller

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

Elie Wiesel

What I need is the dandelion in the spring.
The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction.
The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses.
That it can be good again.

Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

Helen Keller

No effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Helen Keller

What I am looking for is not out there, it is within me.

Helen Keller

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Helen Keller

It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

Rumi

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important.
You have to do the right thing.
It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that they’ll be any fruit.
But that doesn’t mean that you stop doing the right thing.
You may never know what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing there will be no result.

Mahatma Ghandi

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert D. Kennedy

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time.
You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better.
But this is not true.
You are sure to be happy again.
Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now.
I have had enough experience to make this statement.

Abraham Lincoln

You can tell the greatness if a man by what makes him angry.

Abraham Lincoln

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One day, in retrospect, the days of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sigmund Freud

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston