“The hardest arithmetic 
    to master is that which enables us 
              to count our blessings.”

                      —Eric Hoffer 

           “Those who bring sunshine
         into the lives of others cannot
             keep it from themselves.”

                     —James Barrie

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

—Buddha

“Instead of training children to meet the expectations of adults, we should be training adults to meet the psychological, emotional, and development needs of children.”

                   —Zoe Tolman

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

                       “Children are the living messages 
                       we send to a time we will not see.”

                                      —John F. Kennedy

“We make our way through everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke

       “For everything you have missed, 
        you have gained something else,
            and for everything you gain, 
              you lose something else.”

              —Ralph Waldo Emerson