"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”

James Baldwin, 1924-1987
American Author

"In all the universe, in all time, you are the only you, never have molecules come together exactly like you, never again will your footsteps be repeated upon this earth. Your strength is the strength someone can count on, your life is the life that can make a difference.”

Author Unknown
But Greatly Appreciated!

"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers;it comes from being open to all the questions."

Earl Gray Stevens

"There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell,
leap." -- Cynthia Heimel

"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."

Robert Collier, 1885-1950
American Author

"We are more often frightened than hurt: Our troubles spring more often
from fancy than reality." -- Seneca

"Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self...."
-- Robin Morgan

"To be alive at all involves some risk." -- Harold MacMillan

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.— Berthold Auerbach"

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul,with all one’s goodness, all one’s honesty.”

Albert Einstein
German-born Theoretical Physicist

For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
~ T.S. Elliot

"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. — Carol Burnett"