Coach Kenji

"A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all." - Myrlie Evers

"To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom." - Rosa Parks

"Honor your own complexity." - Mark Gerzon from Coming Into Our Own

"Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses." - Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. - Maya Angelou - excerpted from Still I Rise

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." - Galileo Galilei

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone." - Audrey Hepburn

"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond." - Gwendolyn Brooks

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." - Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks in We Are Three