'If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.'

- A. Bradstreet (1655, Author)   

'We need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.'

- Shakti Gawain (author)

'The recipe for perpetual ignorance is to be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.' 

- Elbert Hubbard (author 1856 - 1915)

'Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.'

- Anne Lamott (author 1954- )