“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

- Ayn Rand

Hold fast to dreams...

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

-Langston Hughes

"My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."

- William James

“A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”

- Daisaku Ikeda

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

 - Hal Borland

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

- Jim Morrison

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”

- Desiderius Erasmus

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!”

- Shel Silverstein

“I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better.”

- Lee Kuan Yew

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

- Ivy Baker Priest

"All things lie dark in possibility."

- William Saroyan

“Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.”

- Channing Pollock

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."

- Amelia Earhart

"We will all constantly be faced with crossroad after crossroad: On one side is the path of curiosity. On the other is the path of fear. If you keep taking the path of curiosity, you will live a creative life..."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"No matter how many scars we carry from what we have gone through and suffered in the past, our intrinsic wholeness is still here: what else contains the scars? None of us has to be a helpless victim of what was done to us or what was not done for us in the past, nor do we have to be helpless in the face of what we may be suffering now. We are also what was present before the scarring—our original wholeness, what was born whole. And we can reconnect with that intrinsic wholeness at any time, because its very nature is that it is always present. It is who we truly are."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible."

- Terry Pratchett

"Failures are made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail."

- Lester B. Pearson

"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)

"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."

- Anaïs Nin

“Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”

- Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook as Lou Mannheim in Wallstreet (1987)

“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”

- Alice Walker

“The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.”

- Jean-Baptiste André Godin

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does!"

- William James

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

- E. E. Cummings