“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

Tom Bodett

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”

Carl Gustav Jung

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”

Allen Saunders

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”

Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Be thankful that life is a mystery. There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing. There is much that we do not have to know in order to live joyfully. We can never understand our world, but we can still enjoy it.”

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

Bertrand Russell

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

Thomas A. Edison