“When we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. In fact, there are no promises of fruition at all. Instead, we are encouraged to simply look deeply at joy and sorrow, at laughing and crying, at hoping and fearing, all that lives and dies. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness.”  -Pema Chodron

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. -Brenda Ueland

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. -Socrates

“Life is a journey, not a destination.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” –Benjamin Franklin

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”  -Kofi Annan

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. -Fred Rogers

We think there is endless time to live but we never know which moment is last. So share, care, love, and celebrate every moment of life.  -Anonymous

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.  – Friedrich Nietzsche

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss