Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Anais Nin

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Sarah Teasdale

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Amy Tan

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Emily Dickinson

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

Anne Morrow Linbergh