"You gain strength, experience and confidence, by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt 

                                        "I can, therefore, I am."

Simone Weil

"You are never given a wish without being given

the power to make it come true.  You may

have to work for it, however."

Richard Bach

"A person's life is dyed the color of his imagination."

Marcus Aurelius

"The principal mark of genius is not perfection,

but originality, the opening of new frontiers."

A. Koestler

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty 'Yes' to your adventure... the adventure of the hero-- the adventure of being alive."

Joseph Campbell

"A journey of a thousand miles begins

with a single step."

Lao-Tze

"Power comes from living in the present moment, where

you can take action and create the future."

Sheilaa Hite

 “Know Thyself” 

"Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that

we are powerful beyond measure. 

It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. 

We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?'"

Actually, who are you not to be? 

You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world.

 There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people

won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. 

It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone-- and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. 

As we are liberated from our own fear,

our presence automatically liberates others."

by Marianne Williamson from Nelson Mandela’s Inauguration Speech

“All lives are at the very least, acts of bravery.”
From Michael Apted’s Documentary, “7 Up”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. “

Martin Luther King Jr.

“Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature-- life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

Helen Keller

“I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that

we've been forced to deny who we are.”

Frances Moore Lappe

“To risk is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To try at all is to risk failure.

But to risk we must.

Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The man, the woman, who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To dream anything you want to dream--

that is the beauty of the human mind.

To do anything you want to do--

that is the strength of the human will.

To trust yourself to test your limits--

 that is the courage to succeed.”

     B. Edwards