"I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship."

~Louisa May Alcott

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."

~Paulo Coelho

"In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn."

~Octavia E. Butler

"When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."

~Haruki Murakami

"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

~Rumi

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

~Mother Teresa

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

~William Osler