"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." ~ Zora Neale Hurston

"I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine." John Muir

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return." - Mary Jean Iron

"Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again." -Eudora Welty

"Still there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me" - VanGogh

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Picasso

"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