"If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes." ~ Tori Amos

"Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak." ~ William P. Young

"A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers." ~ Suzy Kassem

"Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train." ~ Leigh Michaels

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything." ~ David Lynch

"There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again." ~ Gary Zukav

"We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps." ~ Hermann Hesse

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." ~ Walt Whitman

"Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress." ~ Anna Olson

"To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self." ~ Joan Didion

"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight." ~ Aristophanes

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." ~ Elinor Glyn

"Anything that is excellent or praiseworthy stands moment by moment on the cutting edge and must be constantly fought for. Well placed priorities always sit on the edge." ~ Ross Perot

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." ~ Socrates

"When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come." ~ Joseph Joubert

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

"Failure is success if we learn from it." ~ Malcolm Forbes

"Specialization is for insects." ~ Robert A. Heinlein