"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

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." — Hellen Keller

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." — The Buddha

"Regard this fleeting world like this: like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast moving stream, like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass, like a candle flickering in a strong wind, echoes, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations, and like a dream." — The Buddha