“History isn’t just something that ought to be taught or ought to be read or ought to be encouraged because it’s going to make us a better citizen. It will make us a better citizen; or because it will make us a more thoughtful and understanding human being, which it will; or because it will cause us to behave better, which it will. It should be taught for pleasure: The pleasure of history, like art or music or literature, consists of an expansion of the experience of being alive, which is what education is largely about.” — Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are, David McCullough
“Attract what you expect. Reflect what you desire. Become what you respect. Mirror what you admire.” Unknown
“And that is who I am appealing to today, and who we all must appeal to in the months ahead-to those who look like us and those who don’t; to those who vote like us and those who don’t; to those who’ve experienced this kind of trauma and those who haven’t. We cannot just look to the oppressed to fight these battles alone. We need to reach out to people, and ask them to search their hearts and listen to their inner voices–the voices that say that this simply isn’t right. Because when that happens, the change we seek cannot be denied.” Michelle Obama
“Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most important, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute–even when the waters get deep, and dark.” N’Tima Preusser
“Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.” Wayne Teasdale
“It may take a village to raise a child, but it’s going to take a vineyard to homeschool one.” Dennis Patterson on Twitter
“Everyone wants to eat but few are willing to hunt.” Unknown origin
“Old ways will not open new doors.” Unknown
“Making positive choices (towards health) or negative choices (towards disease) may not seem to make much difference at the moment, but over time, those little choices you make add up to bring you either great health or miserable disease.” Dr. Wayne Anderson in HabitsofHealth.com
“So many people love you. Don’t focus on the people who don’t.” Soyen
“Life is short. So love your life. Be Happy. And keep smiling. Just live for yourself and before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you pray, forgive. Before you hurt, feel. Before you hate, love. Before you quit, try. Before you die, live.” Jim Carrey
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.” Lewis Carroll
“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.” Henri Nouwen
“Self care isn’t just drinking water and going to sleep early. Self care is taking a break when things become overwhelming, saying no to things you do not want to do, allowing yourself to cry, asking for help from those around you, doing things that make you happy.” TheDailyReminders/Tumblr
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Robert Collier