Literature Review

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, ...  So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations. ~ Dr. Mae Jemison, American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut; the first African-American woman to travel into space, Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I saw medicine as a way to serve those most often overlooked -- to bring care where it was most needed. ~ Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumper, first Black woman physician in the U.S. 

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life. ~ Kristi Ymaguchi, Olympic Women's Gold Medal Ice Skating, 1992

Behind every flawless performance is a thousand falls on the ice.

The Winter Olympics remind us that greatness is built on perseverance, not perfection.

Be gentle with the grieving hearts, they are walking two roads at once. One with the living and one wiht the gone. ~Ulle Kaye

For those grieving a death this Valentine’s weekend:May sturdy bridges sustain you as you move between moments remembered and love that lives on.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving. ~ Dick Button, first US Olympic figure skating champion athe the 1948 Winter Olympics

If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where I can return the Monday after the Superbowl.