“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Nothing happens until something moves.” – Albert Einstein

“Begin with that most frightening of all things, a clean slate. And then look, every day, at the choices you are making, and when you ask yourself why you are making them, find this answer: Because they are what I want, or wish for. Because they reflect who and what I am.” – Anna Quindlen

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” – Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales

“Hope springs forever.” – J.K. Rowling

“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.” – John O’Donohue

“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you. And there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.” – Lemony Snicket