Don’t be afraid of what can go wrong – Be excited about what can go right.

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.

One who makes no mistakes makes nothing at all.
~Giacomo Casanova

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
~Helen Keller

No one of us is as smart as all of us. Every one of us has a piece of the truth.
~ Unknown

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
~ Oprah Winfrey

It always seems impossible until it’s done.
~ Nelson Mandela

A Dog’s New Year’s Resolution: I will not chase that stick unless I actually see it leave his hand!
~ Anonymous

You have exactly one life in which to do everything you will ever do. Act accordingly.
~ Colin Wright

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
~ William Shakespeare

I see your hate, and I raise you One Love.
~ Keaton Farris

Silence is a loud vote of support for the status quo.
~ Eleanor Goldfield

If you take the W from the word “answer,” and the H from the word “ghost,” and the extra A from the word “aardvark,” and the T from the word “listen,” you could keep saying the word WHAT but no one would hear you because the entire word would be silent.
~ Unknown

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.
~ Will Rogers

Life is not measured by the breaths you take but rather by the moments that take your breath away.
~ Anonymous

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.

“Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
Wendell Berry

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London

To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem. Douglas P. Wheeler

When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln, 1864

A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
John Sawhill, former president/CEO of The Nature Conservancy

We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth’s functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.
Father Thomas Berry

Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Cicero

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God’s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.
George Washington Carver

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
Rachel Carson, (1907-1964) The Sea Around Us, 1951

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi