Be the person you want you children to become.

That is so cute. I love Suess. Green Eggs and Ham taught me to read :)

If nothing we do matters ... then all that matters is what we do.

That's a great quote! :)

“If I am not for me, then who is for me?

If I am just for me, then who am I?

And if not now, when?”

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"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never have loved at all."

"This above all: to thine own self be true..."

William Shakespear (Polonius in Hamlet Act 1, scene 3)

"Be the Change in the World You Want to See!"  ~Gandhi

"Be yourself.  Everyone else is already taken."  - Oscar Wilde

"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one." - Calamity Jane

"Who walks down the street, falls down and stays there?"

"Oh! I fell!" (in a put on voice)

"Well in life we mustn't do that either"

From a Dharma talk by Tsem Tulku Rinpoche.

It inspires me not to cling to my past failures and to let things go that do me no good.

In honor of Steve Jobs (he and his wife were/are vegans): "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

"When one resorts to torture, they lose a large part of their humanity". I believe this extends to all sentient beings. ~ Rev. Ed Bacon, addition by me. 

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw

"Every once in a while I come across someone who says, 'Who has time for a book?' My response is, who doesn't have time? Do you see what I'm doing here?" ~ Dr. Stanley Hughes

"Where the world's need and your great joy come together, that is your vocation." ~ Frederick Buechner via Marcus Borg

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; they refuse to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which looks for the best results from the worst conditions. Be optimistic, expect the best for yourself even though things look bad, and look for that one ray of light in the darkness. Remarkably, when you seek goodness, you will find it.