What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Jean Jacques Rousseau

I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. -Arthur Conan Doyle

“I do not strive to be different for the sake of being different, but do not mind being different if my difference is a result of my being myself” -Moondog

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. -Gwendolyn Brooks

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. -Walt Whitman

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. -Margaret Fuller

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. -Bono

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard

You ever wish that fireworks were incredibly quiet and also didn’t disappear so quickly and also you could keep them in your home and also you could hold them in your hands? Because if so, I’d love to introduce you to, flowers. -Jonny Sun