“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”    Tuli Kupferberg

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”    Flavia Weedn

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

Berthold Auerbach

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”     Leo Rosten

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”           William James

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Harold Thurman Whitman

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”        Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”

William C. Durant

“Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is…it’s your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.”

Sir Laurence Olivier

“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne