"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
-Kurt Vonnegut

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." -Alan Watts

"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

“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

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

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

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste and experience the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.” - Thoreau

"....here's the truth: when we practice being open and vulnerable, blessings flood our lives. Our hearts soar on the freedom of released burden. And soon, we don't have to practice anymore once we've learned to speak from our own meaningful truth. It is the biggest miracle in my life to learn this lesson over and over again. My very own vulnerabilities, once seen as my weaknesses, have turned out to be the greatest strength I've known." -Kelly Rae Roberts

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-mark twain

What you can do or dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe

Courage

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