"You yourself, as much as anybody in the universe, deserve your love and affection." -- The Buddha

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." -- Maya Angelou

"Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents; never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." -- Mark Twain

"Life is 10 percent of what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it." -- John Maxwell

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -- Nelson Mandela

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Walt Emerson

"You may only be someone in the world, but to someone else, you may be the world." -- Unknown

"Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work." -- William Arthur Ward

"We must become the change we want to see." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." -- Michelangelo

"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man it forms." -- Anonymous