" A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao-Tzu

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman

"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion." - Scott Adams

"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege." - Charles Kuralt

“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily” ― Paulo Coelho

“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.” ― Anthon St. Maarten

“Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.” ― José N. Harris

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Stephen Hawking

From my favorite scene in American Beauty
 

It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. Right? And this bag was just dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'". - Audrey Hepburn

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein

Like a snow globe?
 

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." - Gandhi

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
Susan Sontag

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire." - Aristotle

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." - Basil

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world." - Goethe

I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

- Augusten Burroughs (from Magical Thinking: True Stories)

"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." - Bruce Barton

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have." - Margaret Mead

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" - John Wooden

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

- Chuck Palahniuk (from Choke)

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?--Robert H. Schuller

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.--Buddha

“Pain is temporary- The pain you feel today is only to get strength to face tomorrow.” ― Sivaprakash Sidhu

“We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.” ― Jocelyn Soriano

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.” ― Gianna Perada

“Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.” ― Lurlene McDaniel

“We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Step by step...each lesson is but another milestone in my life, how I choose to look at it in perspective..

Is but a choice...

"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be upon him, the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." - Moliere