Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  ~Confucius


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.  ~Les Brown


Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.  ~Flavia Weedn, Forever, © Flavia.com


Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.  ~Richard Halliburton


There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises."  Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.  ~Orrin Hatch


Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~Wendy Wasserstein


To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  ~e.e. cummings, 1955


Put your future in good hands - your own.  ~Author Unknown


If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.  ~Milton Berle


Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.  ~From the television show The Wonder Years


When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch.  ~Author unknown, from a television commercial


Life moves pretty fast.  If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.  ~From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off


God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.  ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922


How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr. Seuss


We do not remember days; we remember moments.  ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand


Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.  ~John Lennon


The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.  ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


What we are is God's gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.  ~Eleanor Powell


Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.  ~Seneca


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.  ~Author Unknown


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.  ~Mark Twain


There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  ~Author Unknown


It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.  ~Isabel Waxman


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.  ~Author Unknown


Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.  ~David Frost


Dream as if you'll live forever.  Live as if you'll die today.  ~James Dean


Time goes, you say?  Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.  ~Author Unknown


Friends are relatives you make for yourself.  ~Eustache Deschamps


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley


Don't let anyone steal your dream.  It's your dream, not theirs.  ~Dan Zadra


If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.  ~Author Unknown


As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.  ~Author Unknown


The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  ~Henry David Thoreau


It takes a long time to grow an old friend.  ~John Leonard


It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it.  ~Finley Peter Dunne


We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton


Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  ~Theodore Roosevelt


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  ~Nelson Henderson


May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!
~Irish Blessing


Success:  To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded!  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson