“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
~ Sir Winston Churchill

“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

~ Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)

“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
~ Barack Obama 

“To fly, we have to have resistance.”
~ Maya Lin

“It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear . . . . It’s like being between trapezes. It’s Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold on to.”
~ Marilyn Ferguson

“Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other’s faults and failures.”
~ Mother Theresa

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~ Anais Nin

 “We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”  ~ Herman Melville

“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
~ J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.” 
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson