The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light, You’ll never know how much your caring matters.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

― Mark Twain

We do not need magic to transform the world.  We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.  We have the power to imagine better.

J.K. Rowling

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

― Zig Ziglar

Develop success from failures.  Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

 Dale Carnegie

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Thich Nhat Hanh

In your day, surround yourself with people who love you, motivate you, encourage you and just make you feel good about being you.

-Brigitte Nichole

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

— Susan J. Bissonette

“An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.” 

Winston Churchill