“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

John Green, Paper Towns

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

Dalai Lama XIV

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

John Lennon

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.”

Langston Hughes

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

C.S. Lewis

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections