"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." 
Carl Gustav Jung

"There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you."
Steve Maraboli 

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck

"My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it." -Judy Blume

 "Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return."  - Mary Jean Iron

"Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight."

-Rumi

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of the day saying...I will try again tomorrow."  -Mary Anne Radmacher

"Have compassion for everyone you meet, even when they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone."
-Miller Williams

"Get over your hill and see what you find there, with grace in your heart and flowers in your hair." -Mumford & Sons "After the storm"

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

-A. A. Milne

"The things that make me different are the things that make me."  -A. A. Milne

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." 

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

May I never not be frisky,
May I never not be risque.

May my ashes, when you have them, friend,
and give them to the ocean,

leap in the froth of the waves,
still loving movement,

still ready, beyond all else,
to dance for the world.

-Mary Oliver, Prayer.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. -Sylvia Plath

"Control, apparently, is not the answer.  People who need certainty in their lives are less likely to make art that is risky, subversive, complicated, iffy, suggestive or spontaneous.  What's really needed is nothing more than a broad sense of what you are looking for, some strategy for how to find it, and an overriding willingness to embrace mistakes and surprises along the way.  Simply put, making art is chancy - it doesn't mix well with predictability.  Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art.  And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding."  ~Art & Fear

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”  ~Goethe

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.”  ~Mark Twain

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.  If you can dream it, you can make it so."  ~Belva Davis

"Our suffering comes from the fact that we are attached to the outer form that something assumes in a given instant rather than the movable conversation that stands behind it.  Keeping up with what is occurring rather than lagging and getting caught in things that no longer exist, is one of the the great disciplines of life."  ~David Whyte, The Three Marriages 

“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The artist is nothing without gift, but gift is nothing without work." ~Emile Zola

"Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself."  ~Zen Proverb

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
-Dwight L. Moody

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. 

-Kahlil Gibran

“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever”.  -Isak Dinesen

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you.”
-A.A. Milne

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
-Ferdinand Foch

May you live every day of your life.
- Jonathan Swift

"Home is where they love you."
-Seen on a wooden sign in someone's home

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.-
Ruth Ann Schabacker

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others"
-Marianne Williamson

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.
-Albert Einstein