“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”

~ Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
(Author, Civil Rights Leader)

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”

~ Maya Angelou

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

~ Anaïs Nin
(French-born novelist)

“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

~ Lois Wyse

“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”

~ Tom Robbins

American Author, b. 1936 ("Even Cowgirls Get the Blues")