“The gentleman helps others to realize what is good in them; he does not help them to realize what is bad in them. The small man does the opposite.”
-Confucius

“Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.”
-Caliph Ali

“Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.”
-Bessel Van Der Kolk

"Define yourself by your effort, not your suffering."
-James Clear

“Perhaps home is not a place, but simply an irrevocable condition.”
-James Baldwin

"Our authentic creative expression is so unique to us. That if you don't learn or find a way to express YOUR uniqueness that it will never be seen in the world. It will never be expressed, and it will die with you, unexpressed.”
- Hayley Manson

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
- Thomas A. Edison

“We learned to walk so that the ones behind us could run.”
-Jesse Arbor

“As a man is so he sees.”
-William Blake

“Never let it be said that to dream is a waste of one’s time, for dreams are our realities in waiting.”
-Unknown

“The biggest mountains you will have to overcome are within yourself.”
-David Carrion

“The world is moved not by those in the light, but by those who are not afraid to venture through the dark.”
-David Carrion

“May you find the power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.”
-Kobe Bryant

“I've always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.“
-Dwayne Johnson

Question to Bill Belichick: "With all you have accomplished in your coaching career, what is left that you still want to accomplish?"

Belichick's answer: "I'd like to go out and have a good practice today. That would be at the top of the list right now."

“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”

-Herman Melville ‘Moby Dick’

"Loyalty is a decision, a resolution of the soul."
- Pascal Mercier

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
-Andre Gide

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read the line of a poem twice.”
-Robert Frank

“As we learn to love the enemy without, we also learn to love the enemy within. The fearsome dragon we most fear, outside ourselves, holds the key to the shadow within.”
-Carol S. Pearson ‘The Hero Within’