It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
        Ursula K. Le Guin

Look up and not down; look out and not in; look forward and not back; and lend a hand.
        Edward Everett Hale

Life is for doing, learning and enjoying.
        John-Roger and Peter McWilliams

...to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived.  This is to have succeeded.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson

As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles.
        Walt Whitman

Change is the law of life.  Those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
        John F. Kennedy

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it.  You have an obligation to change it.  You just do it one step at a time.
        Marian Wright Edelman

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.
        Willa Cather

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
        Aldous Huxley

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing.  We can never get ahead that way.
        Harry S. Truman

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.
        Kennedy Fraser

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
        Robert F. Kennedy