Quoting

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E.E. Cummings

Real Courage

It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

Hafiz

…sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks…

Hunter S. Thompson