Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
- Wilma Rudolph


You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
- Indira Ghandi


One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead


Not all who wander are lost.
- J.R.R. Tolkien


too much freedom, i'm learning, can be just as frustrating as not enough. and as with everything in life, i'm still trying to find the balance.
- Audrey Beth Stein


Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald


You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt


She began to cry. Just crying—the deep and ugly kind, the kind you lose yourself in, thanking God no one has to see how rubbed and blotched your face becomes, though some detached part of you also wishes there were someone to see you now, to see and understand how sad you are, at heart. They don't see it, of course; you'd never show them.
- Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch