"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run the walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Peace begins with a smile.."
— Mother Teresa

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou

"I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. "
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have A Dream)

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation were they will not be judge by the color of their skin but by the content of their character ."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream: Twenty-Four Writings and Speeches That Changed the World)

"the time is always right to do the right thing"
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me."
— Emily Dickinson