"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."

- Jim Morrison

"I've looked at life from both sides now, from win and lose, and still somehow, it's life's illusions I recall...I really don't know life at all."

- Joni Mitchell, Both Sides, Now (1967)

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“Do the things you believe in, in the name of love, and know that you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.”

- Carole King

“If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?”

- Charles de Lint

“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.”

-  Annette Funicello

“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”

- Lily Tomlin

“What we play is life.”

- Louis Armstrong

“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.”

- Carlos Santana

"I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion."

- Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin was better known by her pseudonym, George Sand

"I never use that word, retire."

- B.B. King

"Sometimes it takes strange circumstances to provide a mirror in which to find yourself."

- Iggy Pop

"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory."

- Leonard Nimoy

“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise."

- Robert Fritz

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

- Arthur Rubinstein

“You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.”

- Dolly Parton

“You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy."

- Joan Baez

“When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.”

- Charles de Lint

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and ...You are free."

- Jim Morrison