“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” ~Andre Gide

“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. ~Gloria Steinem

“You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.” ~Steven Brust

“The trouble with having an open mind, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ~Terry Pratchett

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” ~John Lennon

“Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Christopher Robin (to Pooh)

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~Gandhi

“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.” ~e.e. cummings

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~Winston Churchill

“Be silent, or say something better than silence.” ~Pythagoras

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.  That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.” ~Stephen King (Different Seasons)

“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” ~Vincent van Gogh

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” ~Plato

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer

“I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.” ~Lisa Wilson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” ~Emerson