"Let the good in me connect with the good in others,

until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love."

----- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

"Spread love everywhere you go.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."

----- Mother Teresa

“The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time.”
~ Mimi Guarneri

"If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives."

-- Mike Zimmerman

"The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life.  It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning.  I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to  blossom, like Aaron's rod,  with flowers.

- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those who are willing to claim them."

~ Reinaldo Arenas

"To get something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done."

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

 “There is no tomorrow. There is only today, and living for today. Because we just don’t know what can happen tomorrow.”


~ Cristobal, Haitian Staff (driver), for Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."

----- Saint Augustine

"Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."

-- Albert Schweitzer

 "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." 


Eric Hoffer

"Don't wish for things you can't do, just do what you can."

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today to make a new ending.”

"There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less."

-- Kurt Hahn

"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing."
~ William James

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness.."

(Kahlil Gibran)

"Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life."

~Albert Einstein

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

~Rumi

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”.

~ Universal Declaration of Human Rights