A Helluva Start

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. -Lucille Ball

Witchery

The fog-streaks dead and white; Lie like ghosts of lost delight; O’er highest earth and lowest sky; Then Autumn, work thy witchery! -Lathrop

The Hem of Truth

It is through the world of the imagination, beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. -Madeleine L'Engle

This Universe

Yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but, perhaps more importantly, the Universe is in us. -Neil deGrasse Tyson

Something Liberating

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. -Drew Barrymore

Every Strike

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. -Babe Ruth

Carry the Heart

Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way... -Banana Yoshimoto

Guts

It's so easy to laugh; It's so easy to hate; It takes guts to be gentle and kind. -Morrissey

The Bold

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold. -E.A. Bucchianeri

Every Child

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -Pablo Picasso

Create, Play, Risk

You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk. -Joan Erickson

Magic

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't believe in. -Jim Butcher

Things That Shine

So don't you worry your pretty little mind, because people throw rocks at things that shine. -Taylor Swift

What We Do

What we do comes out of who we believe we are. -Rob Bell

The Score

The score never interested me, only the game. -Mae West

Inside Job

Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles. -Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Endings

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise. -Kim Harrison

Protect Yourself

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. -Jonathan Safran Foer

Winner

Feeling like a winner. There is no need for a race after all. I just mastered how to walk, differently this time. -Priscilla Koranteng

Dogs

If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers

In Your Own Image

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -Anne Lamott

Facts

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley

What Is True

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it. -Kami Garcia

To Be Loved

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. -Michael Ende

A Woman's Fears

You just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears. -Fatema Mernissi

Wilderness

The love of wilderness is more than hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth. -Edward Abbey

Hearing

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. -Shannon L. Alder

Fearless

Always be fearless. Walk like a lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child. -Santosh Kalwar

Hearts

Anger, resentment and jealousy don't change the hearts of others -- they only change yours. -Shannon L. Alder

Homemaker

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - to support the ultimate career. -C.S. Lewis

I Shut My Eyes

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. -Sylvia Plath