“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” -Melody Beattie

“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

-Charles Bukowski

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

– Jean-Luc Godard

“Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself…. His task was to discover his own destiny — not an arbitrary one — and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

"We forget most of our past but embody all of it." — John Updike