“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” Margaret Fuller

“All the children who are held and loved…will know how to love others. Spread these virtues in the world. Nothing more need be done.” Meng Zi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” Jalaluddin Rumi

“Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.” Earl Gray Stevens

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.” Samuel Ullman

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.” Esther de Waal

“Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.” Pema Chödrön