The future depends on what we do in the present.

Mahatma Gandhi

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration and genius--one and the same.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

To find what you seek in the road of life,

the best proverb of all is that which says:

"Leave no stone unturned."

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

George Herman "Babe" Ruth

Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb

ABOUT KINDNESS

"Kindness is a tool that everyone possesses but some choose to leave it in their tool box. Take it out and use it today."

Author: Teresa A. Vitelli, RAK Member

"It has taken a long time for me to learn to open my heart to kindness, but the journey was well worth it."

Author: Paula S., RAK Member

"Kindness is free, so why not give some out?"

Author: Lisandra Piercey (13), RAK member

"Kindness is like sugar, it makes life taste a little sweeter."

Author :Carla Yerovi - RAK member

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

Author: The Dalai Lama

"When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel."

Author: Harold Kushner

"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Forget injuries, never forget kindness'. "

Author: Confucius

"Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join the others and push...You live, you help."

Author: Ram Dass

"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."

Author: George Bernard Shaw

"We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch of kindness."

Author: Nirazz

"One kind word can warm three winter months."

Author: Japanese Proverb

"Kindness is for all times in all situations -- not just when it suits you."

Author: Audray Landrum

"There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each person, the assurances of good things to come."

Author: Lady Borton

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

Author: Albert Schweitzer

"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves."

Author: Pema Chodron

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

Author: George Washington Carver

"Give to another human being without the expectation of a return."

Author: Bill Bradley

"There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else."

Author: Nirazz

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."

Author: William Shakespeare

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."

Author: Francis Bacon

"Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore."

Author: Hindu Proverb

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."

Author: Mark Twain

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."

Author: Nirazz

"In Compassion lies the world's true strength."

Author: Buddha

"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding."

Author: Kahlil Gibran

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."

Author: Hadia Bejar

"Speak only the truth. Act with only the best intentions. Once you get into the habit, you can live by this code."

Author: Nirazz

"The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones."

Author: F. W. Robertson

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

Author: Marian Wright-Edelman

"Do good and care not to whom."

Author: Italian Proverb

"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are kind, but because you are."

Author: Nirazz

"It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you."

Author: Cort Flint

""True beauty emanates from a selfless heart.""

Author: Cristina Munoz

"everyday is a valentine's day and reach the unreachable star."

Author: Call-Es-Ta

"Perfect is none,

as one has his/her hidden/unreavled weakness within."

Author: Call-Es-Ta

"Flowers can be a symbol of love,

At times when u can't express ur feelin's." Author: Call-Es-Ta

"Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how."Author: Nirazz