"Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!"

 - Winston Churchill

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

"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

"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"

Desire, ask, believe, receive.
-
Stella Terrill Mann

“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.” -Iyanla Vanzant

"The process of living encourages you to leap and to fly, to run and to soar, to meander and to piddle, to embrace and to release. What you tell yourself about your ability to do one or all of these things at any given time determines how hard life will be for you." - Iyanla Vanzant

The Journey

The Journey

By Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.

follow your heart

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." Andre Gide