"The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given to you by yourself. They are at home in the hearth of your soul."
 -John O'Donohue

"Want to live a life of no regrets? Take a small step, a big step, a holy step in the direction that calls you right now. Diving into this moment with integrity answers everything. There is no past or future. There are no other choices. It doesn’t matter what anyone else has. You have this unbelievable moment."   Tama Kieves

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time." Mary Oliver

"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

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." -Oprah

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

"What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment." - Pauline Rose Chance

follow your heart

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