"There came a time when the risk to remain tght in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Anais Nin

"Only when we are no longer afriad do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson

"To live is so startling it leaves time for little else." - Emily Dickinson

"The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anziety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, so we must shrink from being fully alive."

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel as if I should be doing something else." - Glorida Strenim

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and help them to become what they are capable of being." - Goethe

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it."

"The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Commerce without morality; Science without humanity; Worship without sacrifice; Politics without principles." - Gandhi

"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, "And this, too, shall pass away." - Abe Lincoln

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinim

"Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? HOw did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And if I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him." Soren Kierkegaard

"We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know." - W.H. Auden

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time." George Orwell

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people promptly announces she never did care for pie." - Tenneve Jordan

"Great ideas often recieve violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Einstein

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." Bruce Feinstein

"Only those who dare to fall greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy

"We chose our joys and sorrows long before we xperience them." - Kahlil Gibran