"Make yourself proud"

 - Peter W. Smith

"We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience." — Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)"

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
-Rumi

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
-Emily Brontë 

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls.
-Melody Beattie

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleonora Duse

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.

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

"You do not have to be good...You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." - Mary Oliver

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. - Vincent van Gogh

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Harold Thurman Whitman

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." -Rumi

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." - Rumi

"I now understand what it means to be truly inspired, caught by something that has a hold on you and it's taking you where you were intended to go." -Kelly Rae Roberts

"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. - Mevlana Rumi