Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. -Claude Monet

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. -Margaret Mitchell

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree and through that bad companionship must perish with it. -Leonardo da Vinci

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. -Emily Post

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. -Marie Curie, scientist, Nobel laureate

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” -Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. -Iroquois Nation Maxim

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”

– Martha Graham  

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe