“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive– the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”

–Don Miguel Ruiz

“Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.”

–Dr. Maya Angelou

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

–The Dalai Lama

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”

–Milton Berle

“It’s funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools – friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty – and said ‘do the best you can with these, they will have to do’. And mostly, against all odds, they do.”

–Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith