“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life”

-Charles Darwin

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe”

-Voltaire

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies”

-Mother Teresa

“Just living is not enough…one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower”

-Hans Christian Anderson

“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers”

-Robert Green Ingersoll

“By reading the scriptures, I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet”

-Thomas Merton

“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?”

-Rose Kennedy

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song”

-Lou Holtz

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom”

-Bertrand Russell

“Where there is love there is life”

-Mohandas K. Gandhi

“Where there is love there is life”

-Mohandas K. Gandhi

“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved”

-George Sand

“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge”

-Bertrand Russell

“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge”

-Bertrand Russell

“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back”

-Arthur Rubinstein

“If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is…it’s not enough”

-Ann Landers

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination”

-Henry David Thoreau

“You see things and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were, and I say, ‘Why not?’

-George Bernard Shaw

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere”

-Carl Sagan

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create”

-Albert Einstein

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you”

-Carl Sandburg

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built”

-Eleanor Roosevelt

“People do not lack strength, they lack will”

-Victor Hugo

“Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power”

-Stephen Covey

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress”

-Barack Obama

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest”

-Henry David Thoreau

“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it”

-Harry Emerson Fosdick