QUOTE & POSTER: I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

QUOTE & POSTER: You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…. -Dr. Seuss, Oh! The Places You’ll Go!

QUOTE & POSTER: Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff! -Dr. Seuss, Seuss-isms

QUOTE & POSTER: Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! -Dr. Seuss

QUOTE & POSTER: Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss

QUOTE & POSTER: Don’t count the days, make the days count. ― Muhammad Ali

QUOTE & POSTER: You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. -Rosa Parks

WORTH WATCHING: Sports and the Golden Rule

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QUOTE & POSTER: Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. -Wilma Rudolph, U.S. track and field athlete

QUOTE & POSTER: I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. –Julius Erving

QUOTE & POSTER: Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. -Coretta Scott King

QUOTE & POSTER: I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. -Jackie Robinson

QUOTE & POSTER: What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun? -Langston Hughes ”Harlem”

QUOTE & POSTER: Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. -Langston Hughes

QUOTE & POSTER: Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. -Alice Walker

QUOTE & POSTER: Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. -Maya Angelou

QUOTE & POSTER: If you want milk you have to do more than sit on a stool and hope a cow will walk up to you. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers

QUOTE & POSTER: A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. -Author Unknown

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. -Thomas Jefferson

QUOTE & POSTER: Did you ever notice that people who are brutally honest seem to get more pleasure from the brutality than the honesty?-Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. — Lord Thomas Macaulay, British poet, historian, politician (1800-1859)

QUOTE & POSTER: Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -John F. Kennedy

QUOTE & POSTER: Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. –George Washington

QUOTE & POSTER: It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it.” – Tom Hanks, Sleepless In Seattle

QUOTE & POSTER: You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. -Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

QUOTE & POSTER: We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. – W. Somerset Maugham

QUOTE AND POSTER: Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

COMMENTARY: The True Meaning of Love – Love Is Not A Mirage

If we can get beyond the corny red heart clichés and commercialism surrounding Valentine’s Day, there’s real value in celebrating the idea of love.

QUOTE & POSTER: Nearly all men can stand adversity. But if you want to test a man’s character – give him power. –Abraham Lincoln