“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” Buddha

“If you keep running into the same wall over and over again, turn.”  Crystal DeLarm Clymer

"If you want to study yourself - look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people - look into your own heart." Friedrich Von Schiller

"We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions." Ian Percy

“It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.” John Andrew Holmes

9/14: "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." Maya Angelou

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” Dale Carnegie

" I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." Martin Luther King Jr.

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.” Ellen Degeneres

"Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future." Yehuda Berg

"Comparison is the thief of happiness" Laura Williams

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” Khalil Gibran