Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return ― Leonardo da Vinci

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Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. ― Roy T. Bennett

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if you feel happy, Smile with all your heart. if you're down, smile with all your might. ― Paul Ian Guillermo

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The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

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In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

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Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing. ― Helen Keller

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The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal. ― Criss Jami

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