"One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore about whom you please or what anybody says about you. That's when you'll do your best work. " - J.D. Salinger

"One of our chief needs as creative beings is support." -Julia Cameron

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, & the roots spring up & make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."     -Amelia Earhart

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams." -Ashley Smith

"Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song."  -Gloria Naylor 

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." -Carl Jung

"As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world." ~Adabella Radici

If we develop an attitude of entitlement, we may receive an enormous amount, but never notice. The result may be that others stop giving to us because their gifts seem so invisible and devalued.

-Carol S. Pearson

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

Live with intention. Walk to the edge.
Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon.
Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn. Do what you love. 
Live as if this is all there is.
-
Mary Anne Radmacher

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.

~Herophilus

“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.” – Win Borden

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

-- Mary Oliver

Our deepest wishes are whispers 
of our authentic selves. 
We must learn to respect them. 
We must learn to listen.
-
Sarah Ban Breathnach

If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches of the same tree.
W.B. Yeats

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
-Frank Herbert, Dune

“Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.”~Robert Brault

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." -Washington Irving

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." ~Marianne Williamson 

 "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals human spirit." - E.E. Cummings